Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 13:09:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Graham Reeds <grahamr AT dtn DOT ntl DOT com>
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Graham Reeds wrote:

> Libc-202 (is there a newer version??) 

The latest version of the DJGPP library is 2.03.  I suggest to upgrade, 
since there were several bugs in v2.02 related to color text output.

> says textcolor() would do just the job, yet when I try to colour
> some text with:
> 
> ...
>         default:
>           textcolor(LIGHTRED);
>           printf("\n\nERROR:  UNKNOWN OUTPUT TYPE\n");
>           exit(1);
>           break;
> ...
> 
> Nothing happens.

Use cprintf instead of printf (and "\r\n" instead of "\n").  printf 
doesn't pay attention to what textcolor does.