Re: John Elson read this please

batwings@... wrote:

> From: batwings@...
>
> At 11:36 PM 10/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Actually, I make a 'square' spiral, working out until the last pass at
> each level
> >reaches the finish clearance,
>
> Yeah that's what I meant. I actually decided to move out stepover in X and
> then stepover in X, giving 45 deg total change in tool pos. Then it would
> do the rectilinear moves for that stepover and repeat again.
>
> I'd bet your prog will compile in C++ w/ no changes. I was curious about
> why you used scanf() and then getch(); is that to fully flush the input
> buffer? I use fflush(stdin) but C++ I think is said to be self-flushing.

I think that getch() gobbles the carriage return charater at the end of the
input line. That syntax is probably a holdover from the original Pascal
program, which would have used read(---); read(---);readln(); and that
is why the C looks like that.

Jon