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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Telix: initial reactions from a Procomm Plus user
Message-ID: <1375@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 24 Jan 89 22:13:18 GMT
References: <19505@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <13346@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <13346@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
|As quoted from <19505@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> by wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu:
|+---------------
|| ==> "Underlined" text on color displays:  Some people have reported that
||     Telix shows underlined text with a blue background (making it hard
||     to see with certain color combinations).  Since I have a monochrome
||     display right now, I haven't noticed this problem myself.  I assume
||     it can be worked around by either selecting different screen colors
||     or making a customized "termcap" entry (with some other display
||     attributes for the "us" and/or "so" parameters).
|+---------------
|
|Isn't this a holdover from CGA brain-damage?  Not much that can be done
|about it in that case, except to provide a colors entry for attributes
|(which, I note, Procomm Plus doesn't do either).

Excuse me? I don't know about _your_ copy of Procomm+, but _mine_ has
this section called 'Color Options' in the Setup area. One of the
color sets is for the terminal screen, where you select foreground,
background, and highlighted (underlined) colors (bold text comes out
inverse video). That gives you color selection for the attributes.
Admittedly, it's not well documented as to how the attributes map to
highlight/inverse video for the various terminal emulations, but it
does exist.


	Sean Malloy
	Navy Personnel Research & Development Center
	San Diego, CA 92152-6800
	malloy@nprdc.arpa