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From: stoppani@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Peter Stoppani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Screen Border Color using EGA card ??????
Message-ID: <5930014@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 88 16:58:27 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> / hpcupt1:comp.sys.ibm.pc / draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Dave Draper) / 11:16 am  Aug 29, 1988 /
>
>  I am having problems setting the screen border color
>  on my pc clone. I am using a Paradise Autoswitch 
>  EGA 480 display adapter. I used the following debug
>  script.
>
>  This code worked if the card was in either EGA/CGA graphics mode
>  and if the card was in CGA text mode however it did not work in
>  EGA text mode.
>
>  Does anybody know how to set the border color in EGA text modes?
>  Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>

According to the Norton Utilities documentation of the Screen Attributes 
utility, EGA cards generate borderless displays, so it is impossible to set 
the color of the border when you are in EGA text mode.

                                   -- Pete Stoppani