Re: Thought this was interesting

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <oleh@vlinux.voxelvision.no>]

"SteveD" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> writes:

> "Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote in message
> news:dIeb9.113450$aA.24929@sccrnsc02...
> [snip]
> >
> > In any case, rest assured that a very similar C program produces the same
> > results.
> >
> 
> This one produces the same result when compiled with Visual C++ 6.0 and run
> on W2k.  Using streaming operations on cout does not cause the problem.
> Using puts instead of printf does not cause the problem.
> 
> #include <cstdio>
> 
> int main()
> {
>  for( ; ; )
>  {
>   printf( "Hung up!\t\b\b\b\b\b\b" );
>  }
>  return 0;
> }

That may explain my problem in reproducing it, as I used puts.