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
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