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Corrupt output of printf

Dawid Toton
- Dawid Toton
  - Richard Jones
    - Dawid Toton
      - Eric Cooper

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] (Not) corrupt output of printf

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:20:35AM +0000, Dawid Toton wrote:
> This was actually a bug in GNOME Terminal... sorry for the noise.

Weird ... I was going to suggeest it was because you weren't flushing
the output after each print statement.  I usually do:

  printf "something\n%!"

(the %! forces a flush of the output channel).

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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