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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Does NEWLINE always flush stdio buffer?
Keywords: stdio printf I/O
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Date: 6 Jul 89 05:37:57 GMT
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In article <11012@ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:

>I'd always understood that printf'ing any string ending in '\n'
>(newline) would flush the I/O buffer.

On the BSD 4.3 system I use, fprintf to --> stderr <--, with stderr
defaulted to a --> terminal <--, and the string ending in --> '\n' <--,
STILL doesn't flush automatically.  I learned fflush very quickly.

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