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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: <1990Sep5.163924.2864@uwasa.fi>
Date: 5 Sep 90 16:39:24 GMT
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Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <24397@adm.BRL.MIL> J_SCHULL@acc.haverford.edu (Jonathan Schull) writes:
>that would let you write lines like,
>WRITELN('I want to underline ',UNDERLINE('this phrase,'),' not this one');
>
>Does anyone know the appropriate magic?

Yes, sure.  And the magic is called the graphics mode.  

As it happens I've just written a TP program demonstrating (among
other graphics features) underlining text.  In fact underlining in
graphics is easy, programming a proper writeln substitute was much
more complicated, because it involved the problem of making the
graphics screen scroll in the same way as writeln scrolls in the
text mode.  - The demonstration will be released in the near future
for anynymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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