On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 03:01:54PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I think I've seen this question asked before, my apologies if this was > recently. > > I've got two programs intended to be functionally identical, one in Perl and > the other in FPC. They read a unix-domain datagram, decode the message, and > emit output; if this goes to a file then it's reasonable to monitor it using > tail -f > > Perl has a variable that you can set to force output to be unbuffered, with > the result that as soon as a message is output it's in the file in its > entirety. > > Is there an equivalent for Pascal, or should I be using something like > fpSync(stdout) at opportune times?
Does SetTextBuf() with a buffer of size 1 work? I don't think there is anything equivalent to setvbuf(). Otherwise you'll have to Flush() them manually, which is a pain. Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
