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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf and scanf in IBMC on IBM 3090
Message-ID: <15080@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 5 Feb 91 19:26:43 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.234251.14836@ms.uky.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Feb4.234251.14836@ms.uky.edu> ghot@s.ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
>In order to get the program to work correctly, the line
>printf("Please type your name: ");
>has to be replaced by
>printf("Please type your name: \n");
>I would never have predicted this based on my previous experience with C
>and my readings. Can someone tell me if this behavior is consistent with
>the ANSI standard ?

It's not just IBM; many systems will line-buffer output to an interactive
device, and the C standard encourages this.  What you SHOULD have done is
to insert
	fflush(stdout);
before trying to read interactive input, to ensure that the previous
prompt has been flushed out where the user can see it.