From:	Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Realtime & DJGPP
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:21:01 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I think this is an illusion.  Redirecting stdout makes it fully buffered,
> so for small amounts of output, the 16KB buffer holds all the output, and
> the program doesn't really call DOS untill it exits, at which time the
> buffer is flushed.  Even if it does call DOS, it does so many more times
> when the output goes to the screen as opposed to a file.

    Isn't the screen i/o buffered as well? (16k?)  Or is it the fact of
line-buffering that your commenting about?

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