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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!yacc.co.uk!chris From: chris@yacc.co.uk (Chris Davies) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: C Programming Help Date: 30 Jul 1996 15:08:41 GMT Organization: yacc labs, Leeds, UK Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4tl8hp$2rp@incy-wincy.yacc.co.uk> References: <Edina1996Jul23.202436.23721@news3.idirect.com.compulink.com> <01bb7d80$a9549840$6400e0c3@labrys.sonnet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: fergie.yacc.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Chris Harper (clh@sonnet.co.uk) wrote: : > Programming the following code does not show anything on the screen, : > why?? : > : You need to provide a format string, try - : : printf("%s", "Hello world"); The actual problem was that the person wasn't actually running their own program (they'd called it "test.c", and '.' was either at the end of the path or not there at all). However, since they've not come back to me I presume they're happy now. Chris -- yacc Labs, Leeds, UK. (tel +44 113 287-2381, email chris.davies@yacc.co.uk)