Question on printf()

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <24674.266e3b81 at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> jian at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>that if I don't do any I/O and linefeed after printf(), the printf() does 
>not print the string argument on the standard output. Why? How can I avoid
>this problem?

Just insert the following immediately after you call printf():
	fflush(stdout);
This will force the data buffered by stdio for the stdout stream
to be sent to the output device; normally that occurs only at
each new-line.