On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Aviram Jenik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having the following programming program: I have an app (an external app
> which I cannot modify), that sends info to stdout, which I want to capture.
> If I run the app without redirection, I can see the output coming out
> immediately sent out to the screen. To emphasize:
> $ ./externalApp
> line 1
> line 2
> line 3
> ..
>
> However, if I redirect the input to a file, or pipe it into another app (my
> own), the output only starts to show after ~4 minutes. There's no text
> missing, it just appears 'late'.
>
> This is as if the external app forgot to 'flush' or something. Like I said,
> I can't modify this external app and I have to work around it.
>
Seems that it forgot to flush. I think there are tools like Perl's
Term::IO and Tcl/Tk's expect that can overcome this and be used to capture
a program's output as soon as it is written. But I'm not sure.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> Any ideas?
>
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