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From: jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu
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Subject: Re: MPW C 3.1 scanf problem
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Date: 22 Jan 91 16:23:33 GMT
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In article <38337@cup.portal.com> David_Anthony_Guevara@cup.portal.com writes:
>What I want to do is to prompt
>the user and leave the cursor at the end of the prompt line.  My problem
>is that scanf will not read the input if the cursor is at the end of the
>prompt line.  I have to start on a newline for scanf to get the value.

try calling fflush(stdout) after the printf()

John Gillespie
jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu