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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  how to make a line of text blink?
Message-ID: <5435@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 22:21:30 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>One hack to to allocate a private color cell and use it to
>write material to be blinked. Then use an application timeout
>to alternate the contents of the cell between black and, say,
>red. This is a hack, but it works.

Even on boring old monochrome "color"map-less machines like mine?

Remember, folks, not everybody in the universe has a color display on
their desk - and not everybody is hot to get one (I had a color display
on my desk for over a year; its main effect was to annoy me whenever it
started displaying menu cursors in red - I never actually *used* the
colors for anything except to run a worm-generator as a screen lock).