OpenGL and Fonts

Hi,

I have been playing with creating a 3D engine using OpenGL and the Dev-C++/mingw compiler. How do I print text? I can read a text file and would like to display contents to the OpenGL screen. Gametutorials.com has a tutorial but it uses constants in their functions that don't like to be used with strings. So I know how to display hardcoded messages.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
ChuckB