From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jun 25 22:55:52 2001
Subject: Re: progress meter for long operations
From: "Jonathan C. Webster" <jwebster03 at snet dot net>
To: Aaron Brick <aa at lithic dot org>
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:57:50 -0400

Aaron Brick wrote:

> hello all,
>
> does anyone have a good method for announcing progress on long operations? i
> tried putting a printf in a for loop, but it didn't print a thing out until
> it was done,

Use unbuffered writes to a log file and  then watch that.  (tail -f  stuff.log
)
I use code like the following, where FID is the filehandel of your log file.

str1 = sprintf("Blah Blah %d  %f  \n", var1, var2 );
fputs(FID,str1);

Jonathan



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