From: colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp (Colin Peters) Subject: RE: 2 newlines instead of 1? 21 Jan 1997 04:17:22 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC07C5.6FD1BF60.cygnus.gnu-win32@gbird0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'kunglao AT prairienet DOT org'" Original-Cc: "'GNU-Win32'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com kunglao AT prairienet DOT org wrote: >> > But in DOS, running a.exe gives: >> > >> > C:\Work>a >> > Hello world! >> > >> > C:\Work>_ >> > >> > (where '_' indicates cursor position) >> >> In DOS? Are you on the right mailing list? >> >> This is for win32, which means NT or 95. Not DOS. >> > >I'm sure he just meant a DOS shell run in win95, since nothing made >with cygwin32 runs in plain MSDOS . I've also noticed this behavior, >a fix would be nice .. but it's not a emergency or anything :). I'm not 100% sure, but if this is talking about what I think it's talking about then it has nothing to do with the cygnus implementation in particular. As far as I can determine *any* program run from the command line of a DOS box (on 95 anyway) will result in an 'extra' blank line before the next prompt. A hello world program that prints nothing, or even notepad (a GUI program, presumably not using stdout etc. at all), all have the same behavior. And if you pipe the output to a file you still get the blank line (on the console, not in the file). So I'd say it's a 'feature' of the DOS box command line, and not really worth worrying about. Colin. (He said hoping he hadn't completely blown his credibility with the loading DLLs from a floppy thing. :-) ) -- Colin Peters - colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp -- Saga University Dept. of Information Science -- Fundamentals of Information Science -- http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/home.html - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".