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From: tainter@ihlpg.UUCP (Tainter)
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Subject: Re: --- Megamax Printf bug ---
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Date: Mon, 31-Mar-86 10:16:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 31 10:16:29 1986
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> 
> Despite Jwahar R. Bammi's rebuttal, the problem described (no printing
> of statements not  ending in '\n' until explicit buffer flush) is a bug.
> It is possible to use fflush(stdout) to get around it, as he describes,
> but that is not how most standard library printf()s require things.
> Sorry, Jwahar.
> 			-Richard Hartman
> 			nep.pgelhause@ames-vmsb
Really?  Most of the printf()s I have experienced have had this "feature".

The "bug" is not in printf().  The bug is in the OS where you cannot set a NOT
BUFFERED flag.
--j.a.tainter