Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 22:42:52 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "unbuffered" ? Message-ID: <20001202224250.L377@welearn.com.au>
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I've seen this sort of thing in several man pages:
cat(1)
-u The -u option guarantees that the output is unbuffered.
tr(1)
-u The -u option guarantees that any output is unbuffered.
tee(1)
... The output is unbuffered.
What does unbuffered mean, and how is it useful to know or manipulate that?
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-*Sue*-
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