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- Border.exe is a simple program I wrote to help someone out who
- had a problem with some software setting the hardware border (overscan
- area) to a certain color and not resetting it upon exit. Border.exe
- uses the BIOS routine, INT 10h, to change this color to a user
- specified value.
- The executable included here is CGA compatible which means it
- will acccept input from 0-15, I have also included the source code
- which, if you have Turbo Assembler and C, you can modify so that a
- value of 0-63 may be used for EGA/VGA compatible monitors.
- Border functions in two ways: 1) You can invoke border with
- it's argument on the command line, eg., border 0, which will set the
- border color to black (on most monitors); or, 2) You can invoke
- border.exe with no arguments in which case you will get a list of the
- 0-15 colors the border may be set to and a prompt for the value you
- wish to set the border to.
- That's it! It's a very simple program, however, I make no
- claims on it's reliability on all monitors and no warranties/guarantees
- are implied. Since I do use the BIOS, if you're PC has complete BIOS
- compatibility, there should be no problems.
- Credit should also be given to Todd Bezenek
- <bezenek@plains.NoDak.Edu> whose idea it was to write this code and
- make it possible to pass a command line argument to border so that it
- could be used in batch files.
-