From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 28 20:58:20 1999 Subject: pause does not flush buffers when used with echo on From: Arno Peters To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 03:56:07 +0100 (CET) -------- Bug report for Octave 2.1.10 configured for %CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE% ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Surely the previous line qualifies as a bug as well ;-) Description: ----------- pause does not flush the buffers when used in conjuction with echo on. Repeat-By: --------- Run the following small script: ---- begin script echo on ## A little script to show how pause does not flush the buffers. pause ## And another line just to be sure pause echo off ---- end script The script will not output anything until after two keypresses. Fix: --- None known at this time but as a workaround you can issue fflush(stdout) just before the pause command. Because of this trivial workaround I am sure there is an easy fix. Configuration (please do not edit this section): ----------------------------------------------- uname output: Linux maxi 2.2.1 #3 Fri Jan 29 03:08:12 CET 1999 i586 unknown configure opts: --enable-shared --disable-static Fortran compiler: g77 FFLAGS: -O F2C: F2CFLAGS: FLIBS: -lg2c -lm -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.91.58 -lm CPPFLAGS: INCFLAGS: -I/usr/local/include/octave-2.1.10/octave -I/usr/local/include C compiler: gcc, version 2.7.2.3 CFLAGS: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -g -O2 -Wall CPICFLAG: -fPIC C++ compiler: c++, version 2.91.58 19981101 (egcs-1.1.1 pre-release) CXXFLAGS: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall CXXPICFLAG: -fPIC LDFLAGS: -g LIBFLAGS: -L/usr/local/lib/octave-2.1.10 RLD_FLAG: -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker /usr/local/lib/octave-2.1.10 TERMLIBS: -lncurses LIBS: LEXLIB: LIBPLPLOT: LIBDLFCN: DEFS: -DOCTAVE_SOURCE=1 -DSEPCHAR=':' -DSEPCHAR_STR=":" -DUSE_READLINE=1 -D__NO_MATH_INLINES=1 -DCXX_NEW_FRIEND_TEMPLATE_DECL=1 -DF77_APPEND_UNDERSCORE=1 -DSIZEOF_SHORT=2 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG=4 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1 -DNPOS=string::npos -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DHAVE_ASSERT_H=1 -DHAVE_CURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_FLOAT_H=1 -DHAVE_FNMATCH_H=1 -DHAVE_GLOB_H=1 -DHAVE_GRP_H=1 -DHAVE_LIMITS_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_NAN_H=1 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_PWD_H=1 -DHAVE_SGTTY_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIMES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMCAP_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIO_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_VARARGS_H=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DHAVE_BCOPY=1 -DHAVE_BZERO=1 -DHAVE_DUP2=1 -DHAVE_ENDGRENT=1 -DHAVE_ENDPWENT=1 -DHAVE_EXECVP=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL=1 -DHAVE_FORK=1 -DHAVE_GETCWD=1 -DHAVE_GETEGID=1 -DHAVE_GETEUID=1 -DHAVE_GETGID=1 -DHAVE_GETGRENT=1 -DHAVE_GETGRGID=1 -DHAVE_GETGRNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETHOSTNAME=1 -DHAVE_GETPGRP=1 -DHAVE_GETPID=1 -DHAVE_GETPPID=1 -DHAVE_GETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_GETPWNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETPWUID=1 -DHAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY=1 -DHAVE_GETUID=1 -DHAVE_GETWD=1 -DHAVE_LSTAT=1 -DHAVE_MEMMOVE=1 -DHAVE_MKDIR=1 -DHAVE_MKFIFO=1 -DHAVE_ON_EXIT=1 -DHAVE_PIPE=1 -DHAVE_PUTENV=1 -DHAVE_RENAME=1 -DHAVE_RINDEX=1 -DHAVE_RMDIR=1 -DHAVE_SETGRENT=1 -DHAVE_SETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_SETVBUF=1 -DHAVE_SIGACTION=1 -DHAVE_SIGPENDING=1 -DHAVE_SIGPROCMASK=1 -DHAVE_SIGSUSPEND=1 -DHAVE_STAT=1 -DHAVE_STRCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_STRDUP=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_STRNCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_TEMPNAM=1 -DHAVE_UMASK=1 -DHAVE_UNLINK=1 -DHAVE_USLEEP=1 -DHAVE_VFPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_WAITPID=1 -DSMART_PUTENV=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 -DHAVE_DLOPEN=1 -DHAVE_DLSYM=1 -DHAVE_DLERROR=1 -DHAVE_DLCLOSE=1 -DWITH_DL=1 -DWITH_DYNAMIC_LINKING=1 -DHAVE_TIMEVAL=1 -DHAVE_LIBM=1 -DHAVE_FINITE=1 -DHAVE_ISNAN=1 -DHAVE_ISINF=1 -DHAVE_ACOSH=1 -DHAVE_ASINH=1 -DHAVE_ATANH=1 -DHAVE_ERF=1 -DHAVE_ERFC=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLKSIZE=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLOCKS=1 -DHAVE_ST_RDEV=1 -DHAVE_TM_ZONE=1 -DHAVE_GR_PASSWD=1 -DEXCEPTION_IN_MATH=1 -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DSYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SIGLIST=1 -DHAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS=1 -DHAVE_GETRUSAGE=1 -DHAVE_TIMES=1 -DGNUPLOT_HAS_MULTIPLOT=1 -DGNUPLOT_HAS_FRAMES=1 User-preferences (please do not edit this section): -------------------------------------------------- EDITOR = "emacs" EXEC_PATH = ":/home/arno/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games" IMAGEPATH = ".:/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.10/imagelib//" INFO_FILE = "/usr/local/info/octave.info" INFO_PROGRAM = "info" LOADPATH = "::~/thesis//:~/share/octave//" PAGER = "less" PS1 = "\\s:\\#> " PS2 = "> " PS4 = "+ " automatic_replot = 0 beep_on_error = 0 completion_append_char = " " default_eval_print_flag = 1 # 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