From: Bill Atkins Date: 2005-08-13T00:50:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Another newbie question That's strange - it doesn't hang on Windows for me. On 8/12/05, daz wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- Bill Atkins