Re: lynx-dev Re: How do I get the background to be white instead of grey?

[Doug Kaufman]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, David Woolley wrote:

> > However, I cannot set the background to the purest white (or should that
> > be brightwhite).
> 
> That's a fundamental limitation of PC character mode display hardware;
> There are three bits each of foreground and background colour, 1 bit
> of foreground intensity and one bit which can either be blink or 
> underscore.  Note there is no background intensity bit.

I believe that slang for DOS uses the blink bit for intensity, hence
the bright background when lynx is compiled with slang.
                                Doug
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