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Re: color

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From: Mad Dog
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 00:00
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Adrian Duffell wrote:

> hi, wondering if you could help me change the text color in normal
> console/dos type applications.
>
> for example if i did this for the heading of my program
>
> System.out.println("Welcome to my program");
>
> how could i get it to print in say green?
> and how can i clear the screen?
>
> thanks in advance, adrian
> ady@flashmail.com

To the best of my knowledge, java is very limited in what can be done at

command prompt.so in short, i believe it's impossible to do so. please
prove me wrong, and email me if i am. 8-)
here is the JAVA API
 http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/index.html

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