JK>This might be a dumb question but what is the best way to 
JK>provide _formated_ (ie Colours, etc) to text mode apps with 
JK>GCC/2 and EMX08h. I am used to Borland Compilers and would 
JK>normally use the CONIO fuctions cprintf,cputs,etc... 

Hi, Justin.
The VIO Call VioWrtCharStrAttr will do what cprintf does.

#define INCL_VIO
#include 

INT main (SHORT sArgc,CHAR  *ppArgv[]) {

 CHAR *szOutString="hello";
 USHORT usRow = 10; /* row to print on */ 
 USHORT usCol = 20; /* column to print on */ 
 BYTE bAttr = 1; /* blue on black */
 HVIO   hvio = 0 ;

 VioWrtCharStrAtt(szOutString, 
    strlen(szOutString), 
    usRow, 
    usCol, 
    &bAttr, 
    hvio );
}
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