From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Printing in colour in C Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:52:12 -0500 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3519282C.544D@cs.com> References: <35189BCB DOT 3DA69976 AT mail DOT cth DOT com DOT au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp234.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk colcom wrote: > > Is it possible to print in colour in text mode in C? eg printf or > something? There are two ways: - Install an ANSI.SYS driver or workalike, and print ANSI escape sequences to format your text, or - Use the functions in which have been provided for this purpose. You can learn about conio functions by typing "info libc func conio". Please note that conio functions are not ANSI-standard, and you can run into problems if you try to use them interchangeably with stdio functions. Chapter 9.4 of the FAQ describes some of these problems. hth -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "History does not record anywhere at | | aka Fighteer I | any time a religion that has any | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | rational basis." | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------