On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:10:06PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i think the phrase "going off and computing" means use fflush before > > your code goes elsewhere, to do other things. whatever it means, the > > wording is kind of tragic, i agree. > > > > your diff seeks to tweak bad wording, whereas i prefer to kill it. i'll > > commit the diff below in the morning (relatively speaking, of course) > > unless my maibox gets jammed with outrage. > > > ... > > > @@ -148,8 +148,7 @@ > > or when a large amount of computation is done after printing > > part of a line on an output terminal, it is necessary to > > .Xr fflush 3 > > -the standard output before going off and computing so that the output > > -will appear. > > +the standard output so that the output will appear. > > > > "...will appear without delay"? "...will appear immediately instead of at > the next automatic flush"? > > > Philip >
thanks, i settled on tim's "immediately" suggestion to keep it brief. jmc
