Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!peruvian.utah.edu!tmurphy From: tmurphy%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thomas Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Changing the color of dos text output. Message-ID: <1991Jun1.102455.16266@hellgate.utah.edu> Date: 1 Jun 91 16:24:55 GMT References: <1991May31.191343.4472@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Organization: University of Utah CS Dept., Salt Lake City Lines: 19 In article <1991May31.191343.4472@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes: > >Does any one know of a way to change the color of standard output >via C or assemble? > I use turbo C and there is a function cprintf stc stc in conio.h with a complete set of routines to set background color, textcolor, textwindows etc. I have the wrong book home or I would check what ms does but I would imagine you will find the same type of things with most commercial compilers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Murph "Government that governs the least