Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:29:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4DB5A156.370D@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:29:10 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Just starting out in C References: <1c7cbaf6-ca06-4cd0-a287-48b46e0f2540@r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.223.146 X-Trace: sv3-r7Eqj2VEZwTW5AE4dFzf+dBsMpLMaxJvAoNryn5aaxmjJftOiJGsXkEMoIkZ6uRs4AJQF71wWC/JrfL!B+uxBRsofN/wNV8vLF8AWBBx04S1LFg032wSE0SFSiZL6tmPNFYLOCCXPJrzkCF9G48DH8V4GPnp!ES0H+4c9QkQ= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1483 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:2868 Stefan Ram wrote: > > Keith Thompson writes: > >printf("\nHello World\n") prints an extra blank line > >before the output. > >Harmless, I suppose, but why? > > We need to know the requirements specification to judge this. My guess would be that it is to separate the program output from the command line. -- pete