Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!decwrl!world!ksr!jfw From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Direct output Summary: Please remember the PC specific newsgroups for PC specific questions. Keywords: Please? Message-ID: <2678@ksr.com> Date: 13 Mar 91 22:08:12 GMT References: Sender: news@ksr.com Lines: 14 gandalf@valnet.UUCP (Andrew Davenport) writes: > I am writing a program on an IBM AT compatible computer, and I want to >use direct input/output. I wrote the following function, but it doesn't >work. Can anyone give me a pointer as to why not? There is a newsgroup, comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer, which contains a large quantity of people who will be able to answer your question. Your question isn't a general question about C, it is a very specific question about a very specific task on a very specific computer, and there really isn't any reason to expect general C programmers to know the problem. > string[c] &= attr; Though frankly that line looks awfully suspicious.