[Coco] Os9 Intercept

[Retro Canada]

well I fount out that getchar demands an ENTER, like gets(stdin). This
C compiler is very buggy.


On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Gene, from what the C manual says, with puts, the CR is added in software, as the command is executed so there's no way to trim it that I know of. Since write terminates with a null, this may be what I need to use.
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> Bill P
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, Oct 30, 2012 12:03 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Os9 Intercept
>
> That sounds like a problem, because the cr is treated as the implicit
> FFlush signal IIRC. About the only way I can think of at this late date is
> the "echo -n text" but I'd think in a C program that would be described as
> clumsy, and that is being kind.
>
> Since you control the length of the string using puts, what happens if you
> declude the cr when setting how much it writes?  OTOH, I haven't carved any
> C since I put PF out to pasture when the ribbon supply for my big xerox DWP
> went dry. Circa 15 or more years back up the log.  To say my wet ram is
> rusty is being kind. :(
>
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