Re: setting text color for a consol C prog

Ed Morrow wrote:
> jmh wrote:
>
> > Thanks Ed. Every helpful -- though here at home where anything I 
> > actual do write will be used is RH 9. Still,
> > I might find some need to use this at work sometime (which is not 
> > programming job--but it's also not a lot of other things I end up 
> > doing ;-)
> >
> > jmh
>
> in that case you might want to check out the curses libraries (curses, 
> ncurses) many of the function prototypes listed in the header files 
> (curses.h, ncurses.h) are color related and there are functions for text 
> windows like you will see if you use the text based installer that 
> Redhat supplies with thier disto. :) My network gateway is a Redhat 9 
> box and I looked thru the header files to find this information. I have 
> never used these libraries so I can't give you any sample code.
>
> Ed

Ed, again thanks. I really should remember that my own
system can teach me a bucnh! Nothing like the MS world.

jmh