From: qballlives AT aol DOT com (QBallLives)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Why doesn't this work?
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Date: 12 May 1998 22:45:39 GMT
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>Found a simple password program in QBASIC and as an exercise tried to
>convert it to C. So simple, you may say. It is, but for the life of me I
>could not get printf (of all things) to work.
>
>Source attached.
>
>Yes, I know that it is not optimised fully, but the routine is there and I
>know it works. Why does it not prompt you for your password until after you
>have typed it?
>
>It works if I use cprintf or scanf, so I assume that after printf is used,
>the text is not printed until some interrupt is set off (like a function
>call). I thought it was the simple "print to stdout" routine?
>
>James Arthur
>jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
>
>

The problem could be the buffered input... I don't know what compiler your
using.. .or what command it would be... but flush your buffer before you do the
printf... that might help you...


Jim the loiterer
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