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Subject:	Re: Color Text...
Date:	Wed, 03 Jan 2001 00:17:46 GMT
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Matthew Borkowski wrote:

> ... Is there any way to print color text (something other than white) in
> pure C++?

No.

> Or do I need to go to a platform specific news group.

Last time I checked, this was a platform specific newsgroup.

> I've searched the internet and my MSDN help thing, but I couldn't find
> anything regarding to it.

#include <conio.h>

int main(void)
{
    textcolor(LIGHTBLUE);
    cprintf("Hello, World");
    textcolor(LIGHTGRAY);
    cprintf("\n");
    return 0;
}

See the libc documentation for further details.

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