From: "Chris La Mantia" <lamantia AT gte DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: [Q] Bug with printf?
Date: 13 Aug 1997 15:38:31 GMT
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Robert Debeljakovic <rdebelj AT wt DOT com DOT au> wrote in article
<5ss8me$25j$1 AT kurica DOT wt DOT com DOT au>...
> 
> Hi all,
> I just started writing some test programs and I came across something...
> If you use printf without a newline character in the string, it does
print the 
> test to the screen....
> 
> eg:
> printf("hello\n");    gives me
> hello
> 
> where as printf("hello");     gives me 
> [nothing]
> 
> Any solutions?
> 
> I apoligise if this has been discussed over & over, I am new to this
group as 
> of today... 

printf() is buffered output; the buffer isn't flushed until a newline is
sent or it is fflush()ed.

--Chris

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