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From: mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Small utility to disable VGA border
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Date: 5 Mar 91 22:02:18 GMT
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>Try this 2-line C program:

>#include <stdio.h>
>main() { puts ("\x1b[50m") ; }

Yes, but you misunderstand the intend of my asm program. 
I am faced with this situation:
My normal DOS colors are black letters on white background (ok, you can quit
laughing any day now :-) This is done by setting the prompt to an ansi sequence
that changes colors, and works quite well. Now, when I execute certain programs
for example foxbase, windows etc., all of a sudden my border color gets set to
white. Hence the problem is not how to execute a program that turns off the 
border or sets it to some color, but how to prevent the border color from
being changed even if someone tries to set it to a different color. 

My program will work on a Paradise VGA 1024i, and after you run it once, 
even if someone tries to set up the border color, the border will not be 
affected. One might wonder where I ever got software that manipulates the
border color. Well, none of the programs I use manipulate the border color,
but what happens is that upon entry/exit, DOS sets the border color to  
whatever was the background color before. If your background is black, there's
no problem, but if its not, its quite sinister.

Milan
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