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Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> writes:
> 
> > Bill Cunningham wrote:
> >>
> >>     Where is the right place to put fflush in a file IO operation?
> >
> > If you want a message to appear on standard output,
> > which asks the user for input,
> > then use fflush(stdout) after the message code,
> > before the input code.
> 
> <snip code example>
> 
> At least under Linux,
> the attempt to read the input causes the output to
> be flushed (and I verified that this worked for your code example with
> the fflush() snipped).  Is this not portable behavior?

Portability isn't a boolean quantity.

That behavior is not guaranteed though.

-- 
pete