850181p@aucs.UUCP (STEVEN E. PARKER) (01/23/89)
I seem to be having problems with Turbo C ver. 1.5 and its cprintf
routine. The \t (tab) seems to print funny faces instead of moving a
tab! I'm sorry if this has come up before. Thanks in advance.
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Steven E. Parker Acadia Univ. School of Computer Science
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-----------------------------------------------------------spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) (01/29/89)
In article <1509@aucs.UUCP> 850181p@aucs.UUCP (STEVEN E. PARKER) writes: > > > I seem to be having problems with Turbo C ver. 1.5 and its cprintf >routine. The \t (tab) seems to print funny faces instead of moving a >tab! I'm sorry if this has come up before. Thanks in advance. > Sorry, you have to do it yourself. I know, that's a big nuisance. Try: void tab() { while ((wherex()-1) % 8) cprintf(" "); } +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs.bitnet uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | internet: spolsky@cs.yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ #include <disclaimer.h>
wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) (02/08/89)
In article <49044@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) proposes the following routine to substitute for the inability of Turbo C 1.5 "cprintf" to handle tabs properly: void tab() { while ((wherex()-1) % 8) cprintf(" "); } I believe there is a problem with this routine. If the cursor is already sitting on a tab stop, it won't print anything at all -- whereas the correct thing to do would be to print eight spaces. How about the following alternative version? void tab() { cprintf(" "); while ((wherex()-1) % 8) cprintf(" "); } The only difference is the addition of a "cprintf" before the "while". -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department // +1 (213) 825-5683 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024-1596 // USA wales@CS.UCLA.EDU ...!(uunet,ucbvax,rutgers)!cs.ucla.edu!wales "The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank."