From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Conio's cprintf problem
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:03:31 -0500
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Nicolas Blais wrote:
> 
> Hi,  whenever I compile and run this code, the "World!" string is placed
> below the "Hello" but after the "o".  How do I make it got in the
> beggining of the line and not and the end of Hello. Here's what it shows
> on the screen:

In MS-DOS boxes, end-of-line is represented as a combination of line
feed and carriage return characters.  When you use stdio functions
(printf, etc.), this is done for you automatically when you print the
'\n' character.  When you use conio functions, you have to use both
yourself.

Additional bugs in your code:

 - It's clrscr(), not clrscr;
 - main() must return an integer according to ANSI C.
 - The return statement is correct, but it doesn't agree with the return
type of main().

Additional comment:

 - There's no point in writing this code as C++ since it uses no C++
constructs.
 - You don't need parentheses around the argument to return.

Corrected code follows:

#include <conio.h>
#include <iostream.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    clrscr();
    textcolor(RED);
    cprintf("Hello\n\r");
    highvideo();
    cprintf("World!\n\r");
    textcolor(LIGHTGRAY);
    return 0;
}

hth!

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