Some senseless babbling from Peter Fitzsimmons to Mike Ruskai
on 09-26-94  19:05 about VIO on PM...

 MR> A VIO window in the PM has lousy ANSI.  So, is there something that will 
 MR> provide a correct pallette and support blinking characters for a PM comm

 PF> Blinking is not supported by PM (since it can't be done by common
 PF> denominator vga hardware;  note that full-screen blinking is handled by
 PF> hardware,  not software).  On a personal note,  I certainly don't miss
 PF> blinking.  What the heck do you need it for (in the context of
 PF> bbs'ing)? 

I don't personally care about blinking too much, however, I would like it 
to at the very least NOT put a grey background on all blinking text.

 PF> I have never used ZOC.  Is it an AVIO PM app,  or a text app that runs
 PF> in a window?  If the former, it must implement ANSI itself;  if you are
 PF> having difficulty with this,  ask Luns Tee.
 
It appears to be AVIO.

 MR> application?  I am trying to give something to Markus Schmidt other than 
 MR> "stop using VIO", so he can get proper ANSI in ZOC.  
 MR> Anybody that can give 
 MR> me the name of an API?

 PF> If this is a PM app,  he shouldn't be using AVIO period.  Tell him not
 PF> to be cheap and write a real PM program!

The most sophisticated thing I've ever done is make a random password 
generator in REXX (full featured of course ), so telling him to make a 
real PM program just wouldn't come out right :)

But I'll pass the word along that there is a better way to do the screen.

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