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At 12/11/2001 05:38 AM, you wrote:

>> so, is there?  Will an unbuffered cout do the trick?  Or is there
>> more to console output than meets the eye/buffer?  Thanks, cheers.
>
>No replacement is needed.  Continue using cprintf() etc even in C++.
>They still exist and they are still the right functions for that
>purpose. 

How much work would it be to implement conio in C++?  To the extent that even maybe, you could do things like:

cout << setcolour(BLUE) << "blah blah";

And I'm not just talking about fancy wrappers.  Anyway, you have answered my question, thanks, now I'm just curious.