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From: alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe)
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Subject: writing in BOLD
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Date: Thu, 21-Aug-86 18:40:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 21 18:40:59 1986
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I have a number of terminate and stay resident packages that are loaded
in my autoexec file. Most of them announce themselves in bold print.

Since I don't have ANSI, NANSI, FANSI, CLANCY, etc. loaded, how do they
do it. They all write on the next line on the screen, so I presume they
are not doing direct screen writes, but are rather using DOS/BIOS calls.

I don't see anything documented in the DOS calls for writing with an
attribute, and the only BIOS calls do the writes one character at a time.

Since some of them leave me in bold mode (ie. everything else from then
one shows up in bold), I assume that there has to be a variable set
somewhere which holds the "current" attribute. If this is the case, does
anyone know where it is or how to set it?

			Alan Groupe