Re: enabling immediate output behavior

[Francesco Potortì]

>    a=0;
>    for i=1:5000
>    a=a+1
>    end
>    a;
>
>
>When I run this loop in octave, no output is sent to the terminal till 
>the very last function evaluation has been performed.

Try this one:

    a=0; for i=1:5000
    a=a+1; disp (a);
    endfor

It will output 5000 lines showing the values assigned to a.

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