Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:20:24 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Patrick Logan Jenkins <pjenki1 AT gl DOT umbc DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: conio.h and text functions
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On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Patrick Logan Jenkins wrote:

> I am fooling with the text funtions is conio.h (textattr(),
> textcolor(), textbackground(), etc.) in order to display some simple,
> colored text on the screen.  Am I missing something?  I can't these
> things to work.  Text stays the same off-white on black.

Please post a short program that reproduces this problem.  (These function
work, so chances are you just don't use them as you should.)