From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Gotoxy() Malfunction
Date:	Tue, 02 Jun 1998 18:52:51 -0400
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KINO wrote:
> 
> I'm starting to write short C programs with the djgpp compiler and i've
> found that gotoxy() function doesn't work well.
> 
> After compiling the source code I execute it and :
> 
> -The cursor's position isn't as I wrote or
> -The cursor's position is O.K. but the printf() function I wrote doesn't
> appear. After quiting the program I press Alt+F5 and what a surprise that
> all sentences wroten (write) appear at the bottom of the screen.

Read chapter 9.4 of the DJGPP Frequently Asked Questions list
(v2/faq210b.zip or online at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/). 
You're attempting to mix stdio functions with conio functions, which is
never guaranteed to work as you intend.  The fact that it may do so
under certain MS-DOS compilers is accidental rather than intentional. 
:-)

In order to make your screen display appear correctly, you should either
substitute stdio output functions for the equivalent conio versions
(printf->cprintf, etc.), or insert fflush(stdout) after every call to
printf(), etc.

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