>> 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.
> 
> NT-based console windows do not support colour escape codes. Only 16-bit 
> applications (running under NTVDM) can use colour escapes.

Indeed. So that isn't much help.

>> I wonder... Is there some function call in the Win32 API that can 
>> actually change the colour of the text in a console window?
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682088.aspx

Bugger. I don't have bindings for those particular functions. :-(

I wonder if I could write some...?

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