Thread: Pause or press any key to continue

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    Pause or press any key to continue

    I have written a C program (MS 6.0) that is being used on now on a Windows 98 machine that does not have C installed. When they run the program, they do not get the message that I get when I run the program on my machine(which has C installed). I am talking about the message which says something like "press any key to continue ..." or something like that.

    Anyway, because of this, they are losing the last few messages that I had printed to the screen from the program, and the dialog just goes away.

    Is there a way to put a pause on the dialog that will keep the screen there for them, even though they are not running C itself?
    I was thinking of just making them enter a programmed input field to let them exit the program.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks ...

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    It's in the FAQ

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    It makes no difference whether they have a c compiler installed. C programs are stand alone executables and will run on any machine running the os they are are compiled for.
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    Thank you .... I see it in the FAQs. Sorry.
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