Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:33:06 GMT
Message-ID: <Tc23e93195021069996@mailsweeper.wilco-int.com>
From: Prashant TR <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To: Julian Hsiao <madoka AT novastar DOT com>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Buffering text...
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

| > While browsing through conio.h for other helpful functions, I thought I'd
| > 'funk' up my debug output by using colours.  Libc-202 (is there a newer
| > version??) says textcolor() would do just the job, yet when I try to 
| > colour
| > some text with:
| >
| > ...
| >        default:
| >          textcolor(LIGHTRED);
| >          printf("\n\nERROR:  UNKNOWN OUTPUT TYPE\n");
| >          exit(1);
| >          break;
| > ...
| >
| > Nothing happens.  Even setting the normal text to an arbitrary colour
| > doesn't work.  Not important, but hey, it would make a dull black box with 
| > a dull grey text seem more interesting:-)
| 
| You need to add a line in your config.sys file:
| 
| DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ANSI.SYS
| 
| or replace 'DEVICEHIGH' with 'DEVICE'; my ANSI.SYS file is in the 
| C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ directory, maybe it's in a different different 
| directory in Win98se.

There's no need to have ANSI.SYS to get a color output. Just replace
the "printf" with "cprintf" and see the difference!

-- 
Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
Web: http://www.midpec.com/

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