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From: jwf0978@tahoma.UUCP (John W. Fawcett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: How do I get printf to move to a tab position?
Keywords: printf, tab, overwrite
Message-ID: <242@tahoma.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 22:29:53 GMT
Organization: The Boeing Co., BCA FSL, Seattle, WA
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I have what may actually be a simple question, but I could not find an
answer in my K & R.  I would like to be able to tab over to a certain
position on a line and place some text there without overwriting text that
was already on the line, similar to the "X" format descriptor in FORTRAN.
The closest I can come so far is to use a "%20s", but this overwrites
whatever was there.  Any help out there?  

			    Thanks,

			    John


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