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From: tjc@mbunix.mitre.org (Tom J. Colley)
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Subject: Re: Strange C Problem
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Date: 10 May 89 12:58:59 GMT
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In article <13812@paris.ics.uci.edu> bvickers@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes:
>...on to the next line (printf("&")).  The ampersand isn't output until
>the next call to output_msgs().  
>
On many systems, a output to a terminal is buffered until a newline is sent,
(or something to that effect).  I once wrote a program that displayed an 'X'
every 1000 iterations so I could see its progress (50,000 iterations).
The darn thing would run but wouldn't display any of the 'X' until the 
process completed.  If this is on a UNIX system, you might try a 'fflush'
on standard output, or something similar to this on a different system. 
Hope this helps!

Tom  (tjc@mbunix.mitre.org>