From: Leon Heller <leon AT lfheller DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: printf/getch problem
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 08:53:15 +0000
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In article <34cc2c99 DOT 1842074 AT news DOT telusplanet DOT net>, tg
<tgamblin AT telusplanet DOT net> writes
>   Whenever I have a  printf before a getch, it waits until a key is
>pressed before printing the string. However, if the string ends with a
>\n it works fine. 
>
>e.g  printf("blah");
>        getch();
>
>will wait for a key to be pressed and then print "blah". If I replace
>it with "blah\n" it works.
> 
>  Is this supposed to happen and if so how do I get around it? I've
>tried the same thing with a borland compiler and it works as expected.
>

Try fflush(stdout).

Leon
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