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Hey I was wondering if anyone can help,I'm a first year college student and doing an assignment but I sa something that would make it look really great but I can't remember where I saw it , there are comands to change the colour of text and make them 'flash' etc in C they were like \1 and \2 I think... If anyone can help I would really appreciate it, I use both Borland and Visual C++

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