Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!diwarner
From: diwarner@sdrc.UUCP (Mark_Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C 2.0 and EMS
Summary: TC 2.0 cprintf not a bug (feature)
Message-ID: <502@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 16:05:52 GMT
References: <31050@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <597@dms.UUCP> <5543@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <5543@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) writes:
> In article <6957@june.cs.washington.edu> robertb@uw-june.UUCP (Robert Bedichek) writes:
> 
>    cprintf() treats the character '\n' as a linefeed only -- it omits
> the carriage return. I would say that this was some sort of bizarre
> feature :-) except that in TC 1.5 '\n' was treated as a normal CR/LF
> combination. Took me a while to track the problem down when I ported a
> program from 1.5 to 2.0. 
  
> stuff deleted

This is truly not a bug. I also got bitten by the change to cprintf(). I also
called Borland and after I found out that the manual had the change marked in
it under CPRINTF() I felt pretty dumb. Anyhow they say that it was a bug in
1.5 and that they were fixing it. If you use '\n\r' in 2.0 you get the same
result as before in 1.5 with '\n'. I used this and it works okay.

As for the size of code because of gotoxy() I believe it is because of the
gotoxy() where x,y are for the current window and not for the whole screen.
For example point 1,10 in window1 might actually translate to point 10,15 
on the real screen and the function must be able to handle this and to verify
that it doesn't go outside the current window.

I haven't found any other problems with TC 2.0 but there was something I did
find with the documentation on fgets() I think. It's one of the Xgets()
functions and the doc says that it doesn't put the '\n' in the string and it
does. The function still functions like it did in 1.5 but the doc is just
wrong. That is if the function is correct.

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