From: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Redirecting cprintf
Date: 26 Jan 1998 00:19:28 GMT
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On Sun, 25 Jan 1998 21:57:46 -0800 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Ragnar
Kellari <kellari AT swipnet DOT se> wrote:

: This is the problem:
: When I use printf the output goes to stdout and may then be redirected to 
: a file but the only way I can use colors with printf is by sending 
: escape-sequences to ansi.sys. Then when the output is redirected to a 
: file the escape-sequence goes there aswell.
: With cprintf, redirection is not possible as the output goes directly to 
: the screen.
: Does anyone have a smart solution to this problem?

I doubt it's possible to redirect conio at all.  One solution, though,
would be to write a wrapper for all your printing which uses conio iff
stdout is a tty (i.e. hasn't been redirected).  The `isatty' function
is good for this -- on startup, check isatty(stdout); if 0, send
output to stdout (== a file) instead of through conio.

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