Color in MSC using *printf?

[brian at bradley.UUCP]

> /* 7:54 pm May 25, 1988 by C03601DM%WUVMD.B at cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu */
> /* ---------- "Color in MSC using *printf?" ---------- */
> Has anybody gotten printf,(c-,v-,-f) to produce colors inside of MSC 5.0? I
> can get color text by using _outtext, but _outtext doesn't have formatting
> capabilities.  To use ANSI.SYS is cheating, because not everybody has DEVICE=
> ANSI.SYS in their config.sys file.

  We have a function that sends a string to the screen:

void send(y, x, a, s)
  unsigned y, x;		/* position */
  unsigned a;			/* color    */
  char *s;			/* string   */

  I assume this is similar to what _outtext() does. To send a formatted
string to the screen, we use something like:

int w_printf(y, x, a, fmt, ...)
  unsigned y, x;
  unsigned a;
  char *fmt;
  {
  static char buf[512];
  va_list arg_ptr;
  int nc;

  va_start(arg_ptr, &fmt);
  nc = vsprintf(buf, arg_ptr);
  va_end(arg_ptr);

  send(y, x, a, buf);

  return(nc);
  }

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