Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:09:59 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ben N Shadwick <bshadwick AT juno DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: putc and '0x0A'
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On Thu, 8 May 1997, Ben N Shadwick wrote:

> So is there a way to output to the screen characters and such without it
> waiting for a \n to display the whole line and without using the conio.h

You need to make the stream that writes to the screen (normally, stdout) 
unbuffered.  Check out the `setvbuf' library function; it is ANSI, and 
thus portable.

Alternatively, you can call `fflush' when you need to actually deliver 
the output to the screen.