From: Chong Kai Xiong <w_velocity AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why printf of stdio.h don't work ?
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:42:46 +0800
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OmniMeta wrote:

> I can't print anything with printf, why ?
>
> here, sttr is a char* and col a int
> what's wrong ?
>
> gotoxy(40-strlen(sttr)/2,col);
> printf("%s",sttr);

I really think there's nothing wrong with your code. Your use of the
variable "col" struck me though. note that the parameter for gotoxy is
the x-coordinate(column) then y(row). Check the value of "col", it may
be out of the screen boundaries.