From: "Cuculain" <cuculain AT direct-source DOT com>
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Subject: Re: a Very Newbie question...
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:58:38 -0800
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bowman wrote in message <36333E95 DOT C2F53D89 AT montana 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.

Thanks for the info.. I'll take a look and try and see what I can find
there..