Dos window Noobie question

[dragonx7]

Hi guys,
I am having trouble keeping my command window up. I decided to try to use Miracle C to help make the coding less tedious and it works allright, except every time I go to run the program the dos window pops up and when the program is done running the window terminates so I cant see the output. I have already tried clearing the "Close on exit" box in the properties screen of command.com and now dont know what to do. Any help would be appreciated.

[phrygius]

You have to actually run it from the command prompt to keep the window open after it finishes running

[dragonx7]

I saw that coming. I guess I thought I could have the command window come up and run the program when I needed it to and after it was finished running keep the window up to check my results. That would be too easy though. :crash:

[sicarius]

if you include the C++ header file: stdio.h, you should be able to add the following to your program (near the end of execution) so as to keep the window open.

getc();

This function will wait until it can take one character from the standard input stream. That is, after pressing any key it should return.

[Houdini]

Well it depends on what language the guy is using Perl, C++, and many other languages or scripts will run in a DOS Window and exit after completing, Windows XP will keep the DOS window open and show much more. I Use PERL and am just starting to use C++ but after having a couple of hard drive crashes and os system failures (probably my fault) It would help if he told what he was using to achieve that same problem with another system.

[Whiteknight]

my personal favorite method is to include the <stdlib.h> file, and do a call to

system("pause");

which brings up a nice "Press any key to continue..." notice. This only works on windows though, (but then again, that was specified in the question.)