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From: rmarks@KSP.Unisys.COM (richard marks)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: TurboP text color question
Message-ID: <37@bbking.KSP.Unisys.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 88 03:40:14 GMT
Organization: Unisys/Knowledge Systems Projects, Blue Bell, PA
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In Turbo Pascal 3.0 when I write to a CGA monitor, the output defaults
to yellow letters on a black background - regardless of what my prompt
has set the screen colors to.  How can I get Turbo to just use the
current colors?

(I know I can poke into the screen buffer and use TextColor/TextBackground
to tell Turbo what colors to use, but this is not very elegant.  Also I
do not know how to handle an EGA monitor with this technique.)

Suggestions please.

Thank you,
Richard Marks
rmarks@KSP.unisys.COM