Re: printing underlined text

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From: Russ Cage
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 21:30

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In article <43321@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) writes:
>Does anybody out there know if it's possible to print out underlined
>text using printf() in C? And how? 

This really belongs in comp.lang.c, but...

printf( "Underlined text\015__________ ____\n" );

ought to work on any ASCII system with printing terminals.
To use underlining on CRTs or other fancy equipment you
have to get hardware-specific (or use termcap).

Followups to comp.lang.c.
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From: cage@fmeed1.UUCP (Russ Cage)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printing underlined text
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Date: 30 Oct 90 21:30:22 GMT
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