Re: [MacPerl] buffered output window

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 16.17 11/20/97, Danny Thomas wrote:
>unfortunately 5.1.5 no longer outputs those warnings (about line 65535 and
>was it File::Copy) every time I run my scripts. I should be pleased but
>unfortunately that brings back a long-standing problem I've seen. Basically
>the output window doesn't appear until either
>  1) the script completes
>  2) some runtime error/warning message is output
>and then all the output which was buffered gets written
>
>It seems that it's stuck in a buffering mode until that point, eg if i
>leave the window open after the first run then successive script output is
>output during script execution.
>
>Has anyone else seen this or have ideas?
>Maybe there's something silly I'm doing?

In my experience, the MacPerl window opens as soon as some data is
available to print to it, and that does not require turning off buffering.
However, setting $| = 1 will turn buffering off.

Also, you do not need to close the MacPerl window to clear it, you can
select all and delete it.

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