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From: gt5784a@prism.gatech.EDU (Walter G. Reynolds (JJ))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: program question, stdin, stdout.
Summary: the answer!
Keywords: use fflush()
Message-ID: <12230@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 6 Aug 90 04:39:38 GMT
References: <2033@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <2953@awdprime.UUCP> <69@bcstarc.stgt.sub.org>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 29

In article <69@bcstarc.stgt.sub.org> root!bcstarc@nadia.UUCP (Frank Pecher) writes:
>In article <2033@bnlux0.bnl.gov> kushmer@bnlux0.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes:

[program deleted]

>>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?

[more stuff deleted]

Try using fflush().  I use DICE, and I noticed that if you use several
printf statements, and none of them have a newline, that they won't actually
get printed until way too late.... I solved this problem by using
                
                        fflush(stdout)
What's happening, is that the data is getting sent to a buffer or something,
and the buffer is never being physically (in C terms) written out to stdout.

I hope this helps.. it fixed my problem under DICE.....

Walter (JJ) Reynolds.

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