>       Could somebody please show me how I can get a program to detect
 > the presence of an ANSI driver?

#if defined( _MSC_VER )
#define asm __asm
#endif

int
is_ansi (void)
{
    static int hasAnsi = -1;
    if (hasAnsi == -1)
    {
        asm {
           asm mov ax,0x1a00
           asm int 0x2f
           asm cmp al,0xff
           asm mov ax,0
           asm jnz noAnsi
           asm inc ax
          noAnsi:
           hasAnsi = _AX;
        }
    }
    return hasAnsi;
}

Works with DOS 4.0 or above.


 > I'd like to detect if ANSI is available, and if so use escape codes in
 > the printf function to change text colours.

Yep.


 > Also, out of interest, can text colour/flashing etc be used without an
 > ANSI driver? If so, how?

No, not via printf() anyway.


  cheers,
  david

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