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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf, data presentation
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Date: 10 Jan 89 05:28:11 GMT
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In article <225800106@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
: The important point is that some such function should be a
: STANDARD C (ANSI C) function, not an operating system dependent
: kludge. It is obviously too late to get it done right this time
: around, but next time .... PLEASE!

And to repeat what has been said by many: IT CAN'T BE DONE!

A C compiler can't provide this function if the OS doesn't have the
facility.

And many terminals are incapable of transmitting characters as they
are typed.

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Bill
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