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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to flush output to disk?
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.131507.1685@virtech.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 89 13:15:07 GMT
References: <606@caldwr.UUCP> <1025@friar-taac.UUCP> <4176@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <333@charyb.COM>
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In article <333@charyb.COM>, dan@charyb.COM (Dan Mick) writes:
> fflush()?  You've gotta do that more than once.  Why not add a 
> setbuf(stdout, NULL) to the top of the file?  Quick, easy, simple.

except that it is much more ineffecient unless you plan to call fflush() after
*every* putc()/fprintf()/fputs().
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