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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Video Attributes
Message-ID: <1920@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 17:39:00 GMT
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Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> 
> How do you change the video attributes on an IBM PC. I would like to
> bold,reverse,underline strings on the screen but don't know how or
> what escape sequences to use.
> 
> Terry Tanski - Systems Analyst

Make sure that you have ANSI.SYS installed.

Send the following sequences for controlling attributes:

^[[0m	normal
^[[1m	bold
^[[4m	underline (on monochrome cards)
^[[5m	blink
^[[7m	reverse

Experiment with:

^[[30m - ^[[37m and
^[[40m - ^[[47m 

for a variety of foreground and background colors.

Note that using the ANSI driver is very slow -- adequate for very simple
programs, but not for a commercial product.

Clayton E. Cramer