Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:45:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Graham Reeds wrote:

> > Use cprintf instead of printf (and "\r\n" instead of "\n").  printf
> > doesn't pay attention to what textcolor does.
> 
> I've also noticed a large performance hit when using printf("\r\n"); instead
> of printf("\n");

I said to use "\r\n" with cprintf, not with printf.

Using "\r\n" with printf is a waste of CPU cycles when printing to the
screen and a Really Bad Idea when stdout is redirected to a file.