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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:52:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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To: Hans <hansydelm AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: textcolor() for cygwin?
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Hans wrote:
> This must be a simple question but for some reason my google search
> turned up nothing useful. I would like to change the textcolor using C,
> is there any simple way of doing this? I don't need screen control or
> anything fancy, just change some text strings to red,
Actually, changing the color of a displayed text is pretty fancy, if you 
ask me! How are you going to change the color on a B/W terminal? How are 
you going to know your terminal is B/W if you don't want to do something 
in the least bit fancy?

Anyway, try using curs_color(3X) from ncurses - that should help and does 
most of the fancy stuff for you :)

HTH

rlc

BTW: ncurses is in the Cygwin net distri, before anyone asks..



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