Message-ID: <36333E95.C2F53D89@montana.com> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:07:01 -0700 From: bowman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: a Very Newbie question... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Cuculain wrote: > > Is there a header or anything I could use to make simple, basic colorized > text outputs, just as like, say, in basicese, "color 15,0"? hopefully you have 'info' installed. If not, that is your first step, since that tool is going to be your best friend. from the dos prompt, >info libc a screenputstring [Enter] you can also hit the 'n' and 'p' keys to move back and forth to other functions in the 'Screen*' family. while you are there, you might want to look at 'textattr' and its friends, as well as cprintf. The easiest way to see the whole range of functions and defines you might be interested in is to go to PATH\include, where PATH is c:\djgpp, or whereever you put the djgpp packages, and examine the two files, 'pc.h' and 'conio.h'. The usual disclaimer: some of the functions will be platform dependent, and may not port too well, especially the pc.h types.