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In article <199509122307.QAA03742@phaeton.artisoft.com>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>That means no more apps that do 'puts("\033[2J");" to clear the screen,
>etc. (use of standard I/O could break the writes up such that an
>interleaved I/O from another application was not atomic).

In the old days before line-buffered stdio everyone used to do all their
own fflushes at appropriate places so this just worked. You just had to
guarantee write-ordering and everything worked.

But now everyone's lazy and forgets to fflush.

They even leave the sseat up!