On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, James wrote:
>why when i run the following does it wait 5 seconds then display
>.\.\.\.\.\ instead of displaying . [wait 1 second] \ . [wait 1 second]...
Because you don' t flush the output stream.
>
>/* start */
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <unistd.h>
>
>int main()
>{
> int c;
>
> for (c = 0; c < 5; c++) {
> printf (".");
fflush(NULL); /* will cure the problem */
> sleep (1);
> printf ("\\");
> }
>
> return 0;
>}
>/* end */
>
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>
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
