Saturday March 25 1995, Andrew Grillet writes to John Poltorak:

 JP>> values. Is this just a quirk of using an OS/2 compiler, or is Mr.
 JP>> Schildt in error here?

 AG> Arrh, Jim lad, 'tis a terrible thing, this C stuff....
 AG> You need to 'flush the buffer' to get the prompt stuff written. There
 AG> are two ways ...

 AG> call fflush() after writing the prompt stuff.

 AG> tell the system to do this automatically with

 AG> setvbuf()

 AG> check the online doc'n to find out about these. IMHO, using fflush() is
 AG> more likely to be portable.

 AG> The reason you don't need this in most DOS systems is cos DOS is trash.

I am perfectly aware of the limitations of DOS, that's why I tried to get
hold of a book which sounded 'platform indepedent'. I'm surprised that ICC
works differently from GCC wrt SCANF, but I suppose it's part of the
learning curve.

John

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