Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:49:24 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Gorman Ho <gorman AT gpu DOT srv DOT ualberta DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Text programming question
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On 16 Apr 1997, Gorman Ho wrote:

> I understand how to call int 10 to use bright background colors instead of
> blinking text. However, when I use bright background, characters such as
> alt-179 (the vertical line for making text windows) doesn't appear in a
> bright background. For example, when the background is set to bright white,
> my window border doesn't appear even though the foreground color is set to
> black.

This is something peculiar to your code (which you didn't show),
because e.g. Emacs, which also uses bright background colors, has no
problems in displaying alt-179.  Perhaps you have some problem in
unsigned vs signed characters or something.