From: baudy AT total DOT net (Benjamin Audy)
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Subject: Re: Please Help:  Printf problem argv[] issues. LFN?
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 17:47:19 GMT
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Joshua Cannon Butcher wrote:
> 
> Before I write anything I am using RHIDE on Windows 95.
> 
> I am writing a command line DOS utility and use a FOR command for
> several tasks.  While the for command is executing, I am using a
> printf statement to update progress.  This code was taken directly
> from a similar utility I wrote with Borland C++.  the printf in the
> for command DOS NOT update on the screen until the for command is
> finished executing, and all the progress shows up at once.  Why?
> Also, if I use GetCh() in CONIO.H and use printf to print a statement
> before the GetCh(), it does not show the statement (prompt for input
> ifyou will) until after the key is pressed.
> 

Simply turn off line buffering of "stdin" and "stdout":

setbuf (stdin, 0);
setbuf (stdout, 0);

Benjamin Audy
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