Re: still popen2 problems

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Allan,

Two things come to mind:

 - 2.0.5 is too old. You should upgrade to 2.0.9. Things like this _did_
   change. I played myself with two-way pipes under 2.0.x and JWE supplied 
   a patch, but I cannot remember against which 2.0.x version. Check the
   mailing list archives at the usual bevo.che.wisc.edu site.

 - Check the manual. Octave might 'know' when it is called interactively.
   You for sure want to check out 'fflush(stdout)' and the variable
   'page_output_immediately' . They are both documented on the same manual
   page. Quickest is 
        $ info octave "input and output"
   if info knows where to find your Octave texinfo documentation. 

Cheers, Dirk

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