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From: kevinp@mmintl.UUCP (Kevin Piette)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Setting colors in C
Message-ID: <352@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 17:34:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 17:34:17 1985
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Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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The following paraphrased from origional context :
'Does anyone know of an easy way to set character colors from Lattice C
programs using ANSI.SYS?... ...the DOS call only outputs one character
at a time... ...would appreciate hearing of a better way...'

I have written applications in Lattice C which rely upon ANSI.SYS to
provide cursor addressing and attribute selection for displayed text.
Within these applications I simply use printf.  Below is an example of
a Lattice C statement to set the foreground attribute to cyan.

#define ESC	0x1B
...
	printf("%c[36m", ESC);

This approach was chosen to provide MS-DOS portablility provided the
target system has an ANSI.SYS device driver.  There are other methods
which enable faster display output at the cost of portability.
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Kevin Piette					Phone: (203) 522-2116
Multimate International Corporation, Research & Development
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