BB>   For Ms-Dos I just include "device=ansi.sys" in config.sys
BB>   and Bob's your uncle. Works like magic every time. Pretty
BB>   colours, cursor control, windows, the lot! Try that first.
   The Borland cprintf() is entirely independent of system IO.
   The output does not get filtered through ANSI.SYS because
   it does not use stdout, so you have to make your own emulator
   to handle it. Borland's conio output functions use direct
   video memory access, necessitating the use of internal
   emulation, using gotoxy(), textattr(), and putch().
> ] I am Borgs Bunny. What's assimilated, Doc?..................
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