1 Jun
2007
1 Jun
'07
11:04 a.m.
Dear All,
When standard output is redirected to a file, it gets cached, so that nothing is actually written to the file until (say) 4kB of standard output has built up. I'm sometimes too impatient to wait that long to see the output of my programs, especially when the program in question is a long, slow numerical calculation that might be producing only a few hundred bytes of output per day. Is there any way of either switching off this caching, or inspecting the contents of the cache before it gets written, please?
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Thanks very much
Dan Hatton
http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/