It sounds like maybe the program you're calling isn't flushing its writes to stdout. If it doesn't, there's no way for Twisted to see its output until the program's output buffer overflows.

Thanks! I suspect that's exactly it... he's just printing to stdout. It's easy enough to throw a flush in there. Great idea! Thanks again, as I would not have considered that otherwise.

Peace, Gary

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