HOW TO SET THE BORDER COLOR ON A COLOR MONITOR
        	     USING ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE OR TURBO PASCAL



	     I have heard it said before that you must program in BASIC
	to set the border color on a color monitor.  I have always thought
	that this was wrong, but could not prove it until now.  In assembly
	language the code is as follows:

		MOV AL,XX    ;in place of XX substitute the number for the
			     ;color of the border (ie. 0=black, 1=blue ...)
	    	MOV DX,03D9
     		OUT DX,AL

	In Turbo Pascal, this can be done in one statement as follows:

		Port[03D9] := XX;   {in place of XX substitute the color number
     				     as mentioned above}


	Bill Davis
	Fredericksburg, VA