From: "Peter Daniel Davies" <grobe AT globalnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Newbie, stupid 'printf' Question
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:41:02 -0000
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MstrX1 wrote in message <19990107175907 DOT 21430 DOT 00007885 AT ng-fp1 DOT aol DOT com>...
>Hello,
>if I don't type a LF("\n") at the end of my printf-text
>the text isn't printed correctly under MS-DOS.
>Most times this isn't a problem, because I need
>it anyway, but if I want to print text at the bottom
>of the screen and I print (printf("Hello World\n")),
>the screen scrolls down and the top-line will be destroyed.
>
>How can I print it correctly without using a "\n" at the end,
>or stop this scrolling ?
>
>J. Diederich
>

Hello fellow newbie.
Insert the following line beneath the printf statement without the \n at the
end of the string.

fflush(stdout);

This empties the output buffer to the output device 'stdout' which is
defined in the stdio library.