Howard Kapustein
Sun  10-16-1988  20:43:23

I recompiled a program written for TC 1.5 with TC 2.0, and
got a few strange results:

    1: Using console functions (esp. cprintf()) the newline
       character '\n' was being output as a LF instead of a
       CR/LF sequence (as TC 1.5 and printf() do). To use
       cprintf() and have your text printf properly, you
       must explicitly insert a carriage return with \r

    2: The console functions on a CGA perform rather
       strangely, to say the least. With directvideo on
       (directvideo == 1) cprintf() should do direct screen
       writes. Well, the output is slower than molasses. I
       then tried switching the output to the BIOS
       (directvideo == 0) and it whipped the text out just
       as fast as with a printf(). Did they just reverse
       their test of directvideo, or are the direct video
       routines absolute garbage (it crawls across the
       screen like a 300 baud connection)? Is this just a
       problem on CGA, or all adapters?

Any ideas what's wrong?