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From: dougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Help needed mixing text and graphics with turbo c 2.01
Summary: Doesn't printf force display out of graphics mode?
Message-ID: <6267@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:08:37 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.154142.1924@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <77743@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <77743@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, goalie3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Robert W Kramer) writes:
> In article <1991Jan9.154142.1924@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> inuy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
> >We wish to have a graph on one side of the screen and  a box on the
> >other with text inside of it (not graphics text)
> 
> printf() should work just fine, as well as console-based functions,
> which were pointed out in an earlier post.
> 

In my experience, issuing a printf() always forces my display into text mode
(at which time the graphics disappear).