On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:48:01 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>The closest TSO has to standard input and output is the stack.
>
>There is in implied interaction between charin and charout; you want a prompt
>to be written before doing the read. So while it is buffered there has to be
>provision for automatically flushing it.
>
And some want to be able to type a reply on the same line as the prompt.
call charout( , 'Prompt: ' ) /* Handles that nicely. */
When should your putative stack be flushed?
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gil
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