From: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
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Subject: Re: printf/getch problem
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:56:46 +0100
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Myknees wrote:
> >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. 

Try to mix printf and cprintf in a program and redirect its output into
a file.
That is one example. Another (not tried yet)

printf ("nicely out of order");
cprintf ("This is printed ");
printf ("\n");

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