Subj : Re: More dumb questions
To   : echicken
From : Mortifis
Date : Fri Jul 19 2019 05:42 pm

>   Re: Re: More dumb questions
>   By: Mortifis to echicken on Fri Jul 19 2019 16:33:27

>  Mo> I see conio.textcolor and conio.textbackground but I am unsure how to
>  Mo> use it ... I tried conio.textcolor=3 but it displays jibberish and
>  Mo> completely hoses the output

> I completely forgot that thing existed.  Can't remember ever using it,
> though.

> I would imagine that if you want to use it for i/o, you should use its
> methods and no others.

> I just whipped up this quick test and it seemed to do what I expected:

> conio.init();
> conio.clrscr();
> conio.textcolor = 14;
> conio.cputs('hihi');
> conio.getch();

that hoses the stdout the same, oh well, colors are, technically, unnecessary,
thank you, might be a Windows thing.

I have a basic script dup_user_checker.js that takes argv's and allows user
editing ... would it be possible to upload (or have it uploaded) to the cvs /
exec/examples directory?




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were wrong,  I drive truck :-P

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