[Coco] Os9 Intercept

[Bill Pierce]

-----Original Message-----
From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 30, 2012 11:43 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Os9 Intercept


On 12-10-30 09:35 AM, Bill Pierce wrote:
>
> You know, I've been so caught up trying to get printf to work, most other 
options have been forgotten :-)
> I guess I need to run the guantlet of all the different output commands and 
find one that works the way I want. I just don't understand why the buffers are 
not emptied after the command completes in the first place. To print to screen, 
flush should never be needed.

< < It's common behaviour for stdout to be line buffered in stdio (and 
< < sometimes it's fully buffered, depending on the output device and 
< < operating system). A proper stdio has a call that will turn off 
< < buffering on the specified stream (can't remember what it is offhand 
< < though). fflush() should also force stdio to flush its buffers so printf 
< < followed by fflush should have a similar effect. Note that all of this 
< < happens in the user process so the buffering behaviour of the underlying 
< < operating system devices does not affect this.

I'm flushing almost every line I print.
The problem seems to be most apparent when using CWArea. It just doesn't flush.
Bill P


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Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
Bill Pierce
ooogalapasooo at aol.com