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From: asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin E. Sylvain)
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Subject: Re: ReDirecting printf to memory????
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Date: 2 Oct 90 20:03:12 GMT
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In article <31926@nigel.ee.udel.edu> shearer@cis.udel.edu (Rob Shearer) writes:
>Hello!   Yet another cryptic question that may sound very weird!
>
>I am interested in making printf (and anything else that would print to
>the screen) print to a memory location instead.
>
>I know how to create a variable (I am using TC++ by the way) that 
[ ... ]

Use sprintf to write to arrays, then printf the arrays.

   char arr [MAX_CHARS]
    ...
   sprintf (arr, "%s", str);
   sprintf (arr [some_offset], "The answer is %d\n", answer);
    ...
   printf (arr);  /* ... to your device, however the heck you want it */

> ...  The catch is, I am trying to do this
>with out changing all my printfs that I have (or any console output be it
>printf, putch, putchar etc...)

Yeah, and I want it to print guaranteed future winning Lotto numbers.
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