From: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: simple question re: conio.h
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:44:07 -0500
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Smith A. Cat wrote:

> Has anyone got a code fragment that uses conio.h functions to get
> colored text?? When I try to use them I ALWAYS get the default colors 
> in effect at the program startup, I can't set the colors!!?? I can set 
> the lines to this and that, and I can gotoxy(), but I can't set the
> colors?!?!?

do you mean to say this does not work:

#include <conio.h>

int main(void)
{
  textcolor(BLUE);
  cputs("BLUE\r");
  return 0;
}

i find that hard to believe.
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