I think a way exists in C to flush the buffer though... Kelly Black (Also long way from being a C programmer) > Well, I thought you were using Perl, but I guess not :) Anyway, you're > right. In my experience, printf won't print until it sees a \n or \r or > some other character that will flush the buffer. I'm no C guru though. > > Gabe > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta