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From: mpl@pegasus.ATT.COM (Michael P. Lindner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: higher priority to more in "XXXX |more"
Message-ID: <4879@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 90 16:58:46 GMT
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Reply-To: mpl@pegasus.ATT.COM (Michael P. Lindner)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs NJ USA
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I've got a proposal that stdio flush output buffers if there is something in
the buffer for longer than X, where X is some amount of time.  Thus, programs
that are doing a lot of output get buffering, and line-at-a-time slow going
programs get their data out into the real world reasonably quickly.  This is
not hard to implement, either.

Mike Lindner
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