From: Robert Herrick <herrick AT sunchem DOT chem DOT uga DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: gets() and scanf("%s", &crap)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 11:34:54 -0400
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What would be a good way of getting string and character I/O to work on
MS-DOS machines?  I've been writing C programs that I can compile under
UNIX and run just fine with character and string I/O, but in MS-DOS,
when I compile and run, the gets(), scanf("%c", &character) and
scanf("%s", &string) get missed.  I have fflushed stdin before each call
to the input, but they still aren't performed.  What is strange is that
getchar() seems to work just fine.  Is this a problem with the code or
is there a quick patch that I can put on DJGPP to fix it so that it runs
like it does under UNIX?  What is the fundamental difference in the way
that those two systems read characters that makes it run under UNIX but
not MS-DOS?  Could it be that I am running it in a DOS window on Win95?

Thanks,
Robert Herrick