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 22:44:23 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.
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>Source attached.
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>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?
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>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?
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>James Arthur
>jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
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I don't see a source attached...


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