From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-08-07T04:47:10+09:00
Subject: Re: I want to use ruby, but I don't think I can... help

Michael Hale wrote:
> I think I just figured out my own problem.  I needed to do a 
> $stdout.flush after each command to update the console in an interactive 
> manner.  Telnet now works as expected. Yeah!

Strange... on my system, $stdout.sync is true, and so output is 
automatically flushed. Is $stdout.sync true on your system? If so I 
wonder why the flush wasn't happening.