From:	"Graham Reeds" <grahamr AT dtn DOT ntl DOT com>
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1001126080115 DOT 2925D-100000 AT is...

> > Is there a way of repositioning the write position to the individual
lines
> > on the screen without disturbing the rest of the text?
>
> Yes, see the documentation of gotoxy() in the library reference.
> ScreenSetCursor is another possibility.
>

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:-)

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Stay Lucky, Graham "Mournblade" Reeds.
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