[Dev-C++] Bloodshed or dev-c++ question

[Bob W. <bo...@ph...>]

Today I spend another marathon session trying to figure out why I could =
not get any console output from a program. I could go to a DOS window =
and type "newarray > test.txt" and the file created was exactly what I =
expected the console output to be. If I brought up the windows "close =
program" window by doing the Ctrl-Alt-Del trick, it would show that the =
program was still running, but the DOS window had returned to the =
command prompt.=20

This is the second time something like this has happened. In both cases, =
I had accidentally had selected a windows application in the new project =
window and then deleted the default "Untitled1.cpp" it created. That =
fill was filled with windows specific code. When I deleted that file, I =
thought I had fixed the problem, but I had not. I finally discovered =
that the code I had written was fine when I copied it to a different =
name and compiled it on a different compiler. I deleted the project, =
rsrc.o, and rsrc.rc files and returned to the dev-c++ environment. I =
created a new console project, compiled the code and it ran perfectly. =
Since this was the second time, you would think I would not have wasted =
a half a day solving it. The problem is insidious because it is hard, at =
least for me, to detect.=20

My request for assistance is this:

  1.. Is there an easier way to solve the problem other than deleting =
the files and starting over? In other words, is there a file I can check =
for a flag, etc?
  2.. Is there something that is easily identifiable that the Bloodshed =
IDE that would be an obvious clue that this is the problem?
Thanks,

Bob Wilson