From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-08-13T00:01:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Another newbie question


Bill Atkins wrote:

> STDOUT.sync = true   isn't necessary in that snippet.  Even though you
> haven't output a newline, the outbuffer will get flushed as soon as
> you call gets.


That's not a feature of Ruby 1.8.2
You may be describing *nix behaviour ?

On Windows, it looks as if the program is hanging unless #sync of #flush
is used.

[What's worrying is that I can't manage to spell acccount]


daz