Re: [MacPerl] line buffering in perl5

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

edjames@metro.apple.com (Ed James) writes:
>I notice that the mpw tool now seems to line buffer STDOUT, whereas
>the perl4 seemed to buffer on a larger blocksize.

You are right, and no, I'm not aware of any Perl mechanism to change buffering
in running programs except $|. Maybe I should revise my idea of line buffering
stdout. I had picked this as the default for no better reason than the fact
that UN*X does this, too.

Matthias

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