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From: userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printing underlined text
Message-ID: <1925@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 16 Nov 90 02:28:23 GMT
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In article <1990Nov11.153636.13643@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>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?
<<< deletions >>>
> 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.
>
A further change will possibly save a few edit/compile cycles,
or at least some drudgery:
 
printf( "__________ ____?015"?
"Underlined text?n" );
 
I steadfastly refuse to count characters in strings since last
using hollerith fields in Fortran.
 
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