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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: setting foreground text colors
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.183652.23768@uwasa.fi>
Date: 25 Jun 91 18:36:52 GMT
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Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <45670025@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria) writes:
:
>Why not simply  use TP's own  TextBackground (I believe  that's   what it's
>called) and TextColor procedures?  They  are in the  CRT unit I believe and
>do the job for you.  RTFM or use the help to look them up.

This is a point that has been discussed many times.  Using the Crt
unit enforces direct screen writes, and disables redirection
potential unless special steps (which are not as straightforward as
occasionally claimed) are taken.  If these do not matter in a
program, then, no problem.  Else one has to do something about it. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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