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From: pervect@bsu-cs.UUCP (Barrett Kreiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Screen Border Color using EGA card ??????
Summary: EGA-Borders--YES!
Message-ID: <3853@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 88 22:15:59 GMT
References: <1697@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <5930014@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <5930014@hpcupt1.HP.COM>, stoppani@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Peter Stoppani) writes:
> > / hpcupt1:comp.sys.ibm.pc / draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Dave Draper) / 11:16 am  Aug 29, 1988 /
[Stuff deleted] 
> 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

My Freinds, this is wrong.
PC-Magazine wrote a cutezy little program to set EGA borders (about 20 debug
lines).  My personal apologies for not having the mag #/program, but I'm at 
school and don't have my magazines with me.

EGA does deliver borders, but in a wEiRd sort of way.  You don't get the FULL
border like on a CGA, but the strips between the first character/last 
character, and the display edge.  On my monitor, I got 2 vertical stripes on
the left/right of my text, and by playing with vertical size, I got top and
bottom too.  It's kinda like having a black border around a color border
around your text.

my 2 Pfennigs worth.
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