CCS: GNU console output in CCS, Printing to the console for dummies like me

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

GNU console output in CCS

This is just a small tip for novices as I could not find it documented (of course that could be my search skills).  I needed console output from my MSP430 device to the CCS console window. printf didn't work but found this trick which may be so obvious as to be undocumented:

Use fprintf(stdio, ... or fprinft(stderr, ..... apparently the stdio and stderr are wired up to the CCS console but not printf.

Example :

fprintf(stdio,"abc");

I hope this will save someone new to GNU a few minutes...