steckner@lri.uwo.ca (Michael Steckner) (05/27/91)
Thanks for all the responses. For those who might be interested in this question there were 3 types of responses: 1) use some script commands 2) use the "tee" command 3) open a "pty" before I had mailed my query I had tried #2 with no success. Since the tee command was the most common suggestion, I tried it again. It seems to be that on SGI personal iris, it buffers the output such that when the program is printing out numbers, tee will not release the info to the file or screen until x bytes are collected. Just a warning to those who are confused about tee's behaviour like I was.