[GAP Forum] Delayed printing

[Attila Egri-Nagy]

Hey Anvita,

You can use the special character '\c' to flush the buffer like:

Print("Before the pause...\c");

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> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Anvita <anvita21 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Forum,
>>
>> Why does the program
>>
>> -------------------------------------
>> repeat
>>  Print("Before the pause...");
>>  for i in [1..2^28-1] do od;  # pause
>>  Print("After the pause\n");
>> until true;
>> -------------------------------------
>>
>> behave in the same way as
>>
>> -------------------------------------
>> repeat
>>  for i in [1..2^28-1] do od;  # pause
>>  Print("Before the pause...");
>>  Print("After the pause\n");
>> until true;
>> -------------------------------------
>>
>> instead of printing the first message immediately?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Anvita
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