output redirection from a compat - (nf)

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fortune!rpw3    Jun 10 01:41:00 1984

Re: getting programs to do unbuffered output if you only have binaries of them

All of the previous responses have correctly analyzed the problem (no 'fflush'
when needed on a non-terminal stdout), but none provided solutions. Here is a
generic solution (but I may hate myself when I read this in the morning :-)

[ UGLY UGLY UGLY hack#1 ]
If you have ptys on your system, you can 'cu' to the master side of
a pty (you may have to hack up 'cu' to get this to work), log in again
on the other side, send yourself a redirection LEAVING ECHOING ON
(use "~>>file", note no colon), run your chess example, and close
your log file with 'echo "~>"', and logout, and logout.

[ UGLY UGLY UGLY hack#2 ]
If you have a network, and a 'vtp' that can make a log/script file, "connect"
to the system you are on and proceed as above...

[ UGLY UGLY UGLY hack#3 ]
If all else fails, and you have at least one dialout line plus one more
dialin line, use 'cu', dialout, dialin, and see Lemma #1...

(Sometimes you just have to get the job done, no matter how ugly the hack.)

Rob Warnock

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