On Wednesday 29 August 2018 17:01:54 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I think I've seen this question asked before, my apologies if this was > recently. > > I've got two programs intended to be functionally identical, one in Perl > and the other in FPC. They read a unix-domain datagram, decode the > message, and emit output; if this goes to a file then it's reasonable to > monitor it using tail -f > > Perl has a variable that you can set to force output to be unbuffered, > with the result that as soon as a message is output it's in the file in > its entirety. > > Is there an equivalent for Pascal, or should I be using something like > fpSync(stdout) at opportune times?
In order to flush textfiles automatically I use " ttextrec(<thefile>).flushfunc:= ttextrec(<thefile>).inoutfunc; " after it is opened. Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
