From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: A funny thing happened!
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:21:30 -0400
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Lawrence Kirby wrote:

> >> I have been messing around with Borland C for a while.  I wanted to 
> >> try that free 32 bit compiler DJGPP.  I finally figured out what I 
> >> had to download.  I also got RHIDE, the free IDE.  So, I wrote my 
> >> first little C in the new compiler.
> >>
> >>#include <stdio.h>
> >>#include <conio.h>
> >>#include <dos.h>
> >>
> >>main()
> >>{
> >>clrscr();
> >>printf("Hello there\n");
> >>getch();
> >>printf("See You Later!");
> >>delay(1000);
> >>}
> >>
> >>And here is the funny thing.  This program wrote nothing until I hit 
> >> a key.  It was Obviously supposed to write "Hello there" first.

i do not know what is going on there but when i compile the file i
created by cutting & pasting the code you gave using the command line

gcc ttt.c -o ttt.exe

and run ttt.exe, i get

clear screen
"Hello there"
delay
"See you later"

in _THAT_ order.

i have no idea why things were different for the original poster.

> here? A simple test for the original poster would be to see what this
> does:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(void)
> {
>     printf("Hello there\n");
> 
>     for (;;)
>         ;
> }

displays "Hello there" and hangs as expected. I would like to stress
though that I have compiled and run the code that supposedly does not
display "Hello there" until after the getch, and have seen no such
behavior. i do not know who this original poster is, but maybe the code
they posted and the one they actually compiled were different?

  -- Sinan