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From: todd@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Consult programme colours? and green mono screen.
Message-ID: <3982@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 89 21:47:00 GMT
References: <2452@cc.helsinki.fi>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <2452@cc.helsinki.fi>, harper@cc.helsinki.fi (ROBERT HARPER FINLAND) writes:
>     When I checked out CONSULT.EXE on a Olivetti M24 with a Mono green
>     screen, the "file card" popped up just fine but It did not show up
>     any of the "help info" on the left hand side of the card. On a IBM
>     clone with Hercules the "help info" appeared as underlined,  which
>     usually means that the text on a colour sceen would be blue.
> 
>     When  I  got  the  programme on a PS/2 with VGA, CONSULT popped in
>     BLUE and WHITE... this would  appear  not  to  be  a  good  colour
>     combination for OLIVETTI M24 CGA with a green screen. Is there any
>     way to patch the programme to produce a more suitable colours
>     
>     Rob "backwoods" Harper
>     

Yes, there is a compatibility problem with CONSULT on monochrome displays.

As it turns out, CONSULT was developed for use on Zenith 160s, the luggable
computers with the amber screens.  These screens are not monochrome, however.
They are CGA monitors.  The assumption that they were monochrome is an error
that has only now made itself apparent.

Unfortunately, I can't advise a patch for the present program since I have
lost the map file when development of version 2.0 progressed. Again my fault.

Version 2.0, by the way, has a command line parameter which allows the user
to specify the foreground and background colors.

I will re-edit and re-compile version 1.7 (since I managed to back that
version up) and add the command option feature to version 1.8.

Those who are interested in this fix should send a message to me.  It will
take me a few days to get things together.  I think I'll hold off sending
the fix until I've given everyone a chance to respond to incompatibility
problems, then I will send the new version (version 1.9, 1.8.1, or maybe
version 1.8a) to the respondants.

Is this satisfactory?

Todd Gocheonour
University of Kansas
(913)864-0451
BITNET:  TODD@KUHUB
Internet: Todd@ukanvax.cc.ukans.edu