From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: colored text in text mode
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 06:34:12 -0500
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A.Appleyard wrote:
> 
> In v1, and in v2, when writing to screen in the ordinary text mode by fprint()
> etc, how can I tell the PC to start writing with such-and-such a foreground
> and background color?

you can't. fprint is defined by the ANSI standard. it may not be tweaked
with at will. see the conio (console i/o) functions. you can find info
in the 'info' files. (or, follow this:
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/libc-2.01/libc_4.html)

sinan.
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