From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 3:41:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2C837B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 03:41:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA65280 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 22:42:55 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 22:42:52 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "unbuffered" ? Message-ID: <20001202224250.L377@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message