Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 08:29:49 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: arthurto AT elmail DOT cc DOT purdue DOT edu
Subject: Re: Color
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> How would you change screen colors, background, foreground, mixed?
>
> I have used the 4dos color command using a system("color <etc.>"), but 
> this is really inefficient.

Check out the functions from the gppconio library (they are in the libpc.a
library) which are modelled after the Borland's conio functions.