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

[T.E.Dickey]

> 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. 

bright background is not available in some combinations (i.e., not in the
original hardware, but generally in the emulations such as console windows).

>                                 Doug 

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