On the 03-23-95, John Poltorak was chatting with All:

JP>Wednesday March 22 1995, John Poltorak writes to All:
JP>
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JP> JP>         printf("Enter length: ");
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JP> JP> I'm using ICC from C Set/2 v1.0 and this is what the output
looks like:-
JP>
JP> JP> [F:\dev\c]ex3
JP> JP> 12
JP> JP> 15
JP> JP> Enter length: Enter width: area is 180
JP> JP> [F:\dev\c]
JP>
JP>Having just installed emx+gcc, I now get the expected results, viz:
JP>
JP>[F:\dev\c]ex3
JP>Enter length: 12
JP>Enter width: 15
JP>area is 180
JP>[F:\dev\c]
JP>
JP>I am simply stunned to find ICC acting in such an erroneous way with 
JP>something so trivial. I also got unexpected results when 
JP>displaying numbers of type 'double'. All this makes me 
JP>rather hesitant about learning 'C' using the C Set/2 
JP>compiler. I guess I'll move over to GCC for the time being.

Another thread running in this echo indicates that the printf output
is not actually flushed to the device until a '\n' is encountered,
thus your original would require 'printf("Enter length:\n");' 

Not nice and not what one would expect I agree.

 Cheers, Ian.

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