Subject: Re: printf?
To: early AT finite DOT nrl DOT navy DOT mil (Derrick Early)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 15:27:53 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: mcastle AT umr DOT edu (Mike Castle)

Amazingly enough Derrick Early said:
> 
> I trying to display a prompt so that the cursor stays at the end of the
> prompt.  When I try
> 
>    printf("\nThis is a prompt: ");
> 
> nothing appears until after I strike a key that is caught by getche.  
> I tried this on my workstation here at work and it works as expected.


Would the following work better?

  printf("\nThis is a prompt: "); fflush(stdout);

Maybe flushing works different on your workstation than it does
using DJGPP?

mrc
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