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From: pjenki1 AT gl DOT umbc DOT edu (Patrick Logan Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: conio.h and text functions
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:13:05 GMT
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On Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:20:24 GMT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:

>
>On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Patrick Logan Jenkins wrote:
>
>> I am fooling with the text funtions is conio.h (textattr(),
>> textcolor(), textbackground(), etc.) in order to display some simple,
>> colored text on the screen.  Am I missing something?  I can't these
>> things to work.  Text stays the same off-white on black.
>
>Please post a short program that reproduces this problem.  (These function
>work, so chances are you just don't use them as you should.)

Sorry about that.  I figured out what I was doing wrong.  cprintf vs
printf.  Duh!

Thanks anyway
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