From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Display question...
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:30:06 -0700
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Thomas J. Hruska wrote:

>   printf("Hello World!");
> 
> It won't print anything to the screen until either the program is
> finished
> or until a newline character is printed.

It's because stdout if line-buffered in DJGPP.  You should instead
either do:

    printf("Hello world!\n");

or

    printf("Hello world!");
    fflush(stdout);

The latter does the same thing that you're doing, but forces an explicit
flush of the stdout stream, regardless of buffering.

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