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From: root@bcstarc.stgt.sub.org (Frank Pecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: program question, stdin, stdout.
Message-ID: <69@bcstarc.stgt.sub.org>
Date: 1 Aug 90 23:43:12 GMT
References: <2033@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <2953@awdprime.UUCP>
Reply-To: root!bcstarc@nadia.UUCP (Frank Pecher)
Organization: Boeblingen ComputerScienTific ARChive
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In article <2033@bnlux0.bnl.gov> kushmer@bnlux0.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes:
>#include stdio.h
>
>main()
>{
>      while ((c=getchar())!=EOF) putchar(c);
>}
>When I replace putchar with printf("%d\n",c) the program works as I woud
>expect, it prints out the ascii value of the character I hit.
>
>Any ideas why the above prog should not work?

I noticed the same problem; if you use putchar(), the output doesn't occur
until you send an EOF. With printf() everything works alright. Maybe this
problem is dependent on the compiler; I use Lattice 5.05. What compiler
did you use?

        --  Frank

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Frank Pecher                           uucp: root@bcstarc.stgt.sub.org
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