xfer problems sco-sun

[Bill Vermillion]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 03:46:40PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth thus
spoke:

> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:54:06PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
>
> > I usually remap all the low-colors to be the high-colors
> > where possible. The added contrast helps a lot. Of coure,
> > then it can get to be a headache, but there's no happy medium
> > unless you get a program that lets you customize the palette
> > entirely--something you can't do on a *nix console (VC, not
> > in X).

> Course, seein' boldface no treat then...

> As it happens, I vaguely STR that is *is* possible to reprogram
> the VGA CLUT's from Unix and/or Linux, though I'd have to go
> hunt to find it...

My old VGA card had three different built in character sets.  I
built a small program that would run through them all until I got
a set that I could use the filePro line drawing graphics to make
the boxes, etc., look correct.  That was running an SCO Xenix
on a Sys V.3 from Esix on a 25 MHz '386 - approximately 1990.

Bill

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