From: Julian Hsiao <madoka AT novastar DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Buffering text...
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:13:14 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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In article <HJ3U5.12106$ea7 DOT 247266 AT news2-win DOT server DOT ntlworld DOT com>, 
"Graham Reeds" <grahamr AT dtn DOT ntl DOT com> wrote:

> Cheers, that's improved performance no end.  Also I've found
> _setcursortype() to get rid of the flickery cursor!
>
> While browsing through conio.h for other helpful functions, I thought I'd
> 'funk' up my debug output by using colours.  Libc-202 (is there a newer
> version??) 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.  Even setting the normal text to an arbitrary colour
> doesn't work.  Not important, but hey, it would make a dull black box with 
> a dull grey text seem more interesting:-)

You need to add a line in your config.sys file:

DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ANSI.SYS

or replace 'DEVICEHIGH' with 'DEVICE'; my ANSI.SYS file is in the 
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ directory, maybe it's in a different different 
directory in Win98se.

Julian Hsiao
madoka AT novastar DOT com