Subj : Re: Running 5.02 on XP To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Matt" Date : Tue Dec 23 2003 10:28 pm Great, thanks for your help! "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" wrote: >When you start a text mode program from within a Windows graphical >environment, Windows opens the console window that will show the program's >output because the program requires it. When the program is finished that >window is no longer required so the console window is closed. > >If you want to wait at the end to see all of what the program did you can do >one of two things, place a breakpoint on the return statement in main or if >you place getchar(); on the line immediately before the return in main it >will wait for the Enter key to be pressed. > >. Ed > >> Matt wrote in message >> news:3fe926e2$1@newsgroups.borland.com... >> >> I'm a newbie to this programming thing in general, so that's >> probably why I'm having a problem with such a simple thing. >> When I compile a program and run it, the program only runs >> for a split second. I know the program runs fine, I just need to >> know how to change some settings so the window doesn't >> close automatically when the program has finished. Help >> would be much appreciated. > > .