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unbuffered stdout
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From: |
John W. Eaton |
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Subject: |
unbuffered stdout |
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Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:36:29 -0600 |
On 26-Dec-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
| based on several previous questions by users, as well as my own needs,
| I implemented an easier way to ensure
| unpaged output to stdout: there will be stdout_nobuf, which always
| bypasses the pager.
Isn't that what stderr is for?
| However, since stdout_nobuf gets the number 3, Octave's file numbers
| will no longer be exactly equal to OS descriptors.
I'm not sure and I don't have time to dig in to the details at the
moment, but I think that could cause trouble.
| OK to push?
I'd prefer to not make this change. It seems better to me to simply
turn the pager off if you don't want it.
jwe