From: J P Morris <b52g AT usa DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: wierd problem
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:11:10 +0000
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Tony O'Bryan wrote:
> 
> Ashod wrote:
> >
> > I recently wrote this.
> >
> > void main (void)
> > {
> > printf("\nHello");
> > getch();
> > }
> >
> > // but it did it the wrong way round.... it displayed hello after I hit a
> > key,
> > any thoughts on this ??
> 
>         Welcome to C.  Output is buffered.  Hello won't be displayed until the
> output buffer is flushed.  The output buffer is most easily flushed by
> printing a newline character:
>         printf("Hello\n");

Interesting.
Presumably this only happens with UNIX C compilers.
This never happened with Borland, and it had me confused for a while.

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