You *know* something's wrong when you find yourself envying people who 
use Unix because it can emulate an obsolete VT100... o_O

Basically, I have a perfectly working console application, but I wish I 
could just make certain parts of its output come out in a different 
colour. On Unix, this would be a fairly trivial matter of writing some 
escape codes to stdout and you're done. On Windoze... well that doesn't 
work.

I wonder... Is there some function call in the Win32 API that can 
actually change the colour of the text in a console window? Or is that 
impossible? Does anybody here know the Win32 API well enough to know the 
answer?

(Certainly the "color" command changes the colours of the console window 
- but it changes the colour of *everything*. I don't know if you can 
change just some of the text, rather than all of it...)

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