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From: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: I/O problem in the cli
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.104456.24089@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 6 Feb 91 10:44:56 GMT
Organization: James Cook University
Lines: 42

I'm having a simple problem with a small program in the cli using
the C system call.

program 1 -

#include <stdio.h>
char buff[256];

main()
{
	printf("Enter prog name - ");
	scanf("%s",buff);
	system(buff);
	printf("End of prog 1.\n");
}

program 2 - 

#include <stdio.h>
char buff[256];
    
main()
{
	printf("Enter a string (the scanf will be skipped!)- ");
	scanf("%s",buff);
	printf("String was %s\n",buff);
}

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This is compiled with Lattice C 5.1.  If you run the program and type
the name of program 2 into the string at program 1, the scanf in program
2 will be completely skipped when it is executed using the system call.

I have tried using Execute, and fflush(stdin) without any effect.
Is this my problem, a C= problem or a Lattice problem??  I am
using AmigaDOS 2.02.

I really don't want to have to use Amiga specific code for this.

Thanks in advance,
Colin Adams