Originally Posted by
MK27
You almost certainly need a library for that, as Salem suggests, unless there is some simpler way in windows (if you haven't found one by googling, there probably isn't).
Have a look at ncurses, that's the kind of thing used with console apps where you have color and menus & stuff. So it's more work that a single command but you might find it interesting; you have total control over the text console window and can respond to key presses, etc. It's easier than GUI programming but similar in nature.