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to: Marcel Vandevusse
from: Bill Patterson
date: 1995-09-22 09:51:14
subject: Re: Rexx help...

* In a message originally to Marcel Vandevusse, Jerry McBride writes:

 MV> I write in C, and when porting some older programs I had written for
 MV> DOS, I found out that the display routines got messed up. After some
 MV> testing I found the cause: under OS/2, nothing will be send to the
 MV> screen until a cr has been send. Until then, the text just stays in a
 MV> buffer. The solution was to 1) tell OS/2 not to buffer output to the
 MV> screen, or 2) explicitly flush the buffer after each write.
 MV> 
 MV> Hope this helps you out. If it doesn't, I'm sorry for wasting your
 MV> time reading this. I really don't think I know enough about REXX to
 MV> make sure these problems are related or not.
 MV> 
 MV> Marcel,
 MV> [Team OS/2]

Marcel, I have the same problem! How do you tell OS/2 NOT to buffer screen output?
Bill



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