From: Chris Mears <chris AT adjective-army DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: re-directing printf.
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:06:56 +1000
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On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:48:13 -0700 (PDT), Pedro Izecksohn
<izecksohn AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

>   Hello,
>
>   How is the correct (ANSI) way of re-directing printf to
>a piece of memory ?

sprintf()?

>   I need the result of printf to Allegro's
>text_length(font, phrase);, and after to show it using
>textprintf(screen, font, x, y, fg, "%s", phrase);, at the
>correct place on the screen, without blotting other things
>on the screen.
>   The problem is that text_length doesn't take the char *
>fmt parameter.
>   I thought to use a virtual FILE and fprintf, but I don't
>know how to create a virtual only file.
>   By the way: Does ANSI define how should be inside the
>struct FILE ?

No.