Re: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews suggestion - flushing verbose output

[Matthias Andree <mandree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Colin Brough (Colin.Brough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [1999-08-14 13:48]:
> I've hacked my own copy of 'fetchnews' to flush stdout after every
> 'printf' (only if verbose output is selected), which does the trick
> nicely, but wondered whether it was something that might be useful for
> others....

Ever considered setbuf/setvbuf instead? Save the buffer state of
stdout, set it to "line buffered", and upon exit restore the original
stdout buffer behaviour. 

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