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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.lang.c
Subject: stdio buffer flushing (was: Lattice C 4.0 bugs)
Message-ID: <6234@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 18 Aug 88 18:52:52 GMT
References: <6627@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3750@ece-csc.UUCP> <2458@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <2458@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Even better would be to adopt the Berkeley stdio convention, and have
>filbuf on an interactive stream do a flush on all interactive output
>streams. That way you get the correct result when you print a prompt,
>and you don't have an extra check on every character output.

ANSI has blessed this convention.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint