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From: dms@cs.arizona.edu (David Michael Shackelford)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: TC textcolor(RED) problem
Summary: textcolor requires use of cprintf instead of printf
Message-ID: <192@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 90 20:31:09 GMT
References: <1990Mar28.224220.16285@xenitec.on.ca>
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In article <1990Mar28.224220.16285@xenitec.on.ca>, timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) writes:
> This is annoying - I want to display text on my VGA screen in different 
> colors. Supposedly the following Turbo C code segment should show me 
> a red 'hello' on the screen. It doesn't, but shows me the text in the current 
> default color instead:
  [ #include's omitted ]   
> main()
> {
> textcolor(RED);
> printf("hello\n");
> }

TC implements a special version of the printf function, cprintf.  It uses
the same arguments as printf, but uses the attributes set by textcolor and
textbackground.  There are also several other 'console' versions of i/o 
functions -- see the reference manual for specifics.

Dave.

dms@cs.arizona.edu