From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Tue Nov  1 13:22:04 1994
Subject: Re: Octave I/O 
From: John Eaton <jwe at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: "John C. Campbell" <jcc at che dot utexas dot edu>
cc: Steve Swinnea <swinnea at weiss dot che dot utexas dot edu>, bug-octave
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 94 13:21:55 CST

For now, you have to write it like this:

  function a=foo()
    printf("Enter a winning number: ");
    fflush (stdout);
    a = scanf( "%f" );
  endfunction

but it would probably be reasonable to `tie' stdin and stdout so that
stdout is automatically flushed any time a read operation is performed
on stdin.  I'll see if I can do this for 1.1.

Thanks,

jwe