-=> On 22 Mar 95  21:28:58 John Poltorak said to All <=-

 JP> This is supposed to prompt the user for two values and compute the
 JP> result.
 JP> When I run this program, I don't get any prompts, before entering any
 JP> values. Is this just a quirk of using an OS/2 compiler, or is Mr.
 JP> Schildt in error here?
Arrh, Jim lad, 'tis a terrible thing, this C stuff....
You need to 'flush the buffer' to get the prompt stuff written. There
are two ways ...

call fflush() after writing the prompt stuff.

tell the system to do this automatically with

setvbuf()

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

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

Andrew


 
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