Printing Status from .m files

[Andy Adler]

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I'm in the process of converting .m files from Matlab to
octave. Most of the time I find I prefer the way octave does it,
when there's a difference, but sometimes I'd like the Matlab 
behaviour.

When I have a long function, I often print status messages like
 Foobar: iteration 2 of 666 completed.

In matlab, these show on the screen immediately, but octave waits
until the control is returned to the user, making the status 
messages useless. 

My question is:

Is there any way to force octave to print the text immediately?

Thanks for any help.
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Andy Adler,    | Pulmonary Physiology Unit         | Lab 303-398-1626
address@hidden | National Jewish Center,Denver,USA | Fax 303-398-1607

   For the Snark _was_ a Boojum, you see.    -Lewis Carroll

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