From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help! Characters won't COUT
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 21:32:43 -0700
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Endlisnis wrote:

>     It is because DJGPP uses buffered I/O.  Try this:
> cout << '*' << flush;
> 
>     If your doing a lot of locating, then make sure that flush is
> called before
> each gotoxy command.

Or better yet, don't use iostream output with conio output.

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