mixed up
 

when i wrote the following program in turbo c,the out put was right but when i wroted it in
borland c,the out put was wrong and the (*) was printed in wrong place,so what is the problem with
borland c for dos.for another example i wrote a program which contained some graphical features
compilers couldent compile it ,exept borland c for dos(even borland c for windows coulden`t compile
it,an error about bgi and windows ...?! happend).

#include <stdio.h>

#include <conio.h>

int main(){

clrscr();



 gotoxy(50,20);//one

 printf("*");



 gotoxy(0,0);//two

 printf("*");



 getch();

return 0;

}

by the way i have an other question:
can u please brif me on bgi api (16- bit 32- bit os) or name some good web sites about it?

Re: mixed up
 

gotoxy()

is a function developed by Borland for Turbo C. It was never standard C to begin with, so to get your program back to standards and up to date, try using: SetConsoleCursorPosition()
Here's another usefull link

other things that are non-standard in your program are:

#include <conio.h>

Just delete it

clrscr();

Click here for alternatives

getch();

. Use

getchar();

instead if you're just using it to pause the program

Re: mixed up
 

As you found out the hard way, attempting to port programs written with ancient Turbo C is pretty tedious -- usually requires 100% rewrite of everything used from dos.h and graphics.h

Re: mixed up
 

gototxy(); function might not be defined in your header file or it might be the problem with the compiler