Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:13:53 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: dos color ?
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:17:11 -0500, "Joe Toth" <jtoth AT megsinet DOT net>
> wrote:
> 
> >You should only use the 'dark' collors listed in <conio.h> for the
> >first of the two COLORS listed above. If you specify one of the
> >light colors, it will be the same as entering the BLINK value.
> 
> However, there's a call to BIOS to turn off blinking and enable high
> intensity backgrounds.  Check Ralf Brown's INT 10 docs.

No need to do that: the DJGPP library has a function called 
`intensevideo' that does this for you.