C code not working

I am dealing with code from The C Programming Language, and can't figure out why it's not working. I believe the program is supposed to count how many characters are in a text stream typed, but whenever you type something, it doesn't output anything. I am running Windows XP, using Dev-C++. Here is the code:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
      long nc;
     
      nc = 0;
      while (getchar() != EOF)
            ++nc;
      printf("%ld\n", nc);
}

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Does anyone have any ideas of how to fix my code, or what is going wrong? I have tried all my ideas.

It won't output anything until it reads EOF. That means you can either run the program, type some junk and then press CTRL-D (or CTRL-Z in Windows), or you can run it like nc < file.txt.

Code:

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itsme@itsme:~/C$ ./nc
some junk
^D10
itsme@itsme:~/C$ cat file.txt
some junk
itsme@itsme:~/C$ ./nc < file.txt
10
itsme@itsme:~/C$

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