From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: printf/getch problem
Date: 27 Jan 1998 03:49:35 GMT
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In article <34CC5211 DOT 57270346 AT alcyone DOT com>, Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
writes:
>Leon Heller
>wrote:
>>
>> Try fflush(stdout).
>
>Better yet, do not mix stdio and conio calls.
>They were not meant to be
>used at the same time.

I hear many people say that, and it makes sense on an abstract level, since
file (or stdin / out) I/O is different from console I/O.  But no one has ever
said what concrete bad would really come of it.  ...printf("conio & stdio can't
get along\n"); getch();...  Will this code run slowly or become unstable or be
less portable or something?

I know this is really a C question, but I'm hankerin' to ask the djgpp people
who say this stuff what they really mean.

--Ed (Myknees)