From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-10-10T04:37:03+09:00
Subject: Re: "print" not showing immediately in output, but "puts" is

On Oct 9, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Aryk Grosz wrote:

> Several times I have come across this issue. It seems to be  
> dependent on
> the environment, but I'll do a "print 'string'" and it wont show up
> UNTIL I do a "puts". Then both strings will show up in the output  
> window
> in one shot.
>
> Do you know how I can fix it to work properly?


It's your terminal doing line buffering on the output.

Try:
   $stdout.flush = true

Then see how it works for you.

-Rob

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