Can anyone tell me how to change the text color in an MS-DOS type console window? I am running it under windows 98. I am using metrowerks codewarrior, which does not seem to like conio.h (causes a link error). At first I tried to use conio.h, but as I said just a second ago, it caused a link error. Then I tried to use the system() function to use the ANSI escape color codes from the MS-DOS prompt, only to find out that the Metrowerks Standard Library files have a system() function that doesn't do anything, and always returns 0! Please help!

You can use

textcolor(x)

Where x is a number 0 - 15, and if you add 128 to x you can make it blink.

textcolor() is defined in the conio.h file, and you also have to make sure you use a writing function that supports the textcolor feature. cprintf() is one of them, which is basically the same thing as printf.