Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 10:15:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: conio and stdio
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Endlisnis wrote:

>     Well, a program written in DJGPP can use ANSI escape sequences to produce
> colored text(I commonly do it).  The nice thing is (as long as ANSI.SYS is
> loaded) it workes with cout.

This will require that people load ANSI.SYS on their systems.  Since most 
systems do NOT load ANSI.SYS, I think it's a bad idea to require it.