Simple Textgame programming

I''ve been trying to make some text rpg games like I used to in QBasic with Borland''s free compiler, and for windows. 1. I can''t get this code to compile , what is the right way to assign strings?

struct WEAPON
{
	char  name[20];
	int   damage;
	int   cost;
};

WEAPON w[5];

void SetWeapon(int instance,char *weaponname, int damage,int cost)
{
	w[instance].name = weaponname;
	w[instance].damage = damage;
	w[instance].cost = cost;
}

void InitWeapons(void)
{
	SetWeapon(0,"bare hands",0,0);
	SetWeapon(1,"knife",2,10);
	SetWeapon(2,"dagger",4,100);
	SetWeapon(3,"short sword",6,500);
	SetWeapon(4,"sword",8,1000);
}
 

2. How can i get the text to work in the window the same way it did in dos? in dos it used to scroll down the screen automatically as you printed more text, but with drawtext, you have to give pixel co-ordinates. I haven''t been able to find any good tutorials on this, everywhere I look, they teach you how to make a basic window, then jump to direct draw, or adavanced windows stuff and mfc.