Re: Can you force Octave to print?

[Francesco Potortì]

> I am solving a differential equation using ode45 and it
> takes a very long
> time to run (actually, it's very simple, but I'm running it
> for thousands
> of iterations). To get a status on it, I have the following
> lines in the
> function which is called over and over by ode45:
> tRound = floor(1000*t)/1000;
> if mod(tRound, 100) == 0
>   fprintf('Timestep = %f at %s\n', t, datestr(clock));
> fprintf('%f,', t);
> 
> However, the output from the fprintf is not appearing until
> ode45 is
> finished.

Maybe you are using printf?  fprintf takes a stream identifier as its
first argument.

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