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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printing underlined text
Message-ID: <1990Nov11.153636.13643@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 90 15:36:36 GMT
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In article <8611@fmeed1.UUCP> russ@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us (Russ Cage) writes:
>In article <43321@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) writes:
>>Does anybody out there know if it's possible to print out underlined
>>text using printf() in C? And how? 
>
>This really belongs in comp.lang.c, but...
>
>printf( "Underlined text\015__________ ____\n" );
>
>ought to work on any ASCII system with printing terminals.
>To use underlining on CRTs or other fancy equipment you
>have to get hardware-specific (or use termcap).
>

 One improvement would be to use:

printf( "__________ ____\015Underlined text\n" );

 That way, on a CRT you would at least see the text instead of the
underscores.

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