From: Dan Nelson <dnelson AT xnet DOT com>
Subject: Re: Question reagarding kbhit()
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 09:22:57 -0600 (CST)

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in the last episode, Jon Keene said:
> 
> 
> Could anyone tell me why it is that when I run the following
> program, it pauses for the keyboard hit _before_ doing any output?

[code snipped]
>         for ( i = 0; i < BUFSIZE; i++ )
>                 printf("%c", buf[i]);
>         while (!kbhit()) 
>                 ;
>         return 0;
> }

You didn't flush your buffer.  do a fflush(stdout); just before the kbhit().

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