TC textcolor(RED) problem

[Tim Kuehn]

This is annoying - I want to display text on my VGA screen in different 
colors. Supposedly the following Turbo C code segment should show me 
a red 'hello' on the screen. It doesn't, but shows me the text in the current 
default color instead:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <dos.h>
 
main()
{
textcolor(RED);
printf("hello\n");
}

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I know the computer can do it, becuase the following Turbo PASCAL 
code will show a red 'hello' on the screen like I want:
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uses crt, dos;
 
begin
textcolor(RED);
writeln('Hello.');
end.

Am I missing something incredibly obvious, or is this another neat little
"feature" of TC? As near as I can tell, everything is as it's supposed to 
be as a gettextinfo() call returns tinfo.attrib with the proper settings 
that correspond with a color display, and says the text color should be 
red. But the text on the screen isn't red at all.

I'm using an ATI VGA Wonder/512K attached to a NEC 4D on a 386 PC.

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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