Strange C Problem

[Tom J. Colley]

In article <13812 at paris.ics.uci.edu> bvickers at bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes:
>...on to the next line (printf("&")).  The ampersand isn't output until
>the next call to output_msgs().  
>
On many systems, a output to a terminal is buffered until a newline is sent,
(or something to that effect).  I once wrote a program that displayed an 'X'
every 1000 iterations so I could see its progress (50,000 iterations).
The darn thing would run but wouldn't display any of the 'X' until the 
process completed.  If this is on a UNIX system, you might try a 'fflush'
on standard output, or something similar to this on a different system. 
Hope this helps!

Tom  (tjc at mbunix.mitre.org>