Well......you can modify your config.sys (maybe it's autoexec.bat...i forget)...and load the DOS based ANSI.SYS file....if the ANSI.SYS is loaded, then there are all new kinds of escape codes you can throw in your printf statements which allow to print in colors (foreground and background) and some other neat things..........without loading ANSI.SYS...i don't know...