From: Michael Hale <michael@...>
Date: 2004-08-07T06:52:02+09:00
Subject: Re: I want to use ruby, but I don't think I can... help

On my system it is set to false.  I am using 1.8.2 preview 4 if that 
makes a difference.

On Aug 6, 2004, at 3:47 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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