setvbuf() ??

[Bruce Wolk]

Putting a trailing comma after the print statement eliminates the newline, but
adds a trailing space.  Would periods separated by spaces work?

I would be curious if anyone knows how to eliminate the trailing space.

Bruce

Wayne Cuddy wrote:

> I need to print a period on an xterm every few seconds to provide status to the
> user, I don't want to force a newline.  How do I turn off line buffering for
> standard out?