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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: It would be convenient to have a TP UNDERLINE string function
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.121213.9840@uwasa.fi>
Date: 6 Sep 90 12:12:13 GMT
References: <24397@adm.BRL.MIL> <5727@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <6512@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <6512@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> decomyn@penguin.uss.tek.com (Vergil William de Comyn) writes:
>In article <5727@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine) writes:
>> Unless you're going to use EGA or VGA and create your own internal 
>> font, you've got an impossible task.  The standard IBM character set
>> is the default for all text modes, and doesn't allow for underlined
>> characters. 
>
>Ah, I see you haven't worked in monochrome recently.  Setting the background/
>foreground attributes correctly will result in underlined text on a monochrome
>card / display.  

Ah, I see that you are merrily confusing Turbo Pascal features and
video card conventions.  The fact that monochorome monitors display
certain attributes by underlining has, I my opinion, very little to
do with generic underlining of text using Turbo Pascal.  The
solution shouldn't be dependent on (obsolete at that) display type. 

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