jrv@siemens.UUCP (01/13/87)
Just about every printer which does two way printing will wait until the
entire line of text has been entered before it is printed. This way the
printer controller can decide whether it is optimum to print the characters
left to right or right to left. No matter how you send the characters to
the printer you may not be able to get them to come out one at a time.
You also might want to take a look at the setbuf() function which when
given a NULL argument for the buffer pointer it sets the stream to be
unbuffered.
Jim Vallino
Siemens Research and Technology Lab.
Princeton, NJ
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