From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help with simple commands
Date: 15 Mar 1997 06:27:52 GMT
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Matt Chuckleton (riker AT pipcom DOT com) writes:
> Last year I started learning C with Borland C++ (I think :).  There
> are 4 commands in particular that I used than, that I can't get to
> work with DJGPP.  They are:
> 
> clrscr();		(clear screen)
> getch();		(wait for a key press)

#include <conio.h> and you'll have these. Borland must have included it
automatically.

> /n		(new line - used with printf, etc.)
> /t		(tab - used with printf, etc.)

Use \n, \t. Borland must have had slashes backwards. (I thought slash
direction was specified in ansi?)

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