Re: Can you force Octave to print?

[Francesco Potortì]

>> Maybe you are using printf?  fprintf takes a stream identifier as its
>> first argument.
>
>no, for Matlab compatibility this argument is not mandatory.

Uh.  Then Jeffrey is seeing the system bufferring output.  Either he
uses fflush(stdout()) or else, as Sergei suggested, he uses an
unbuffered stream like stderr rather than stdout, which is buffered.

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