Re: Ferret enhancement?

[verschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mark A. Verschell)]

I am pretty sure it has to do with output buffers. For example, on an SGI the
default behavior is to output in "blocks", which has a default value, but is
system setable - hmm? maybe this is a solution to my immediate needs!

Mark
On Feb 14,  1:16pm, Steve Hankin wrote:
> Subject: Re: Ferret enhancement?
> Subject:
>             Ferret enhancement --> persistence of journal output when crash
occurs
>
> =========================
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I believe this behavior has already been fixed in Ferret version 5.1 ALPHA.
>
> The behavior turned out to be operating system-specific. I believe that
Solaris
> exhibited the undesirable behavior -- possibly others, too.
>
>     thanks for the feedback - steve
>
> =========================================
>
> "Mark A. Verschell" wrote:
>
> > To the Developers:
> >
> > Here is a suggestion for a future version of ferret (although I wish I had
it
> > now!). If your ferret session is abnormally terminated you almost always
end up
> > with an empty ferret.jnl file. It would be nice if output to this file was
> > flushed after every command (or at least every couple of commands) so that
when
> > bad things happen to good researchers, you at least have some record.
> >
> > Of course, often this isn't a big problem because I can cut and paste from
the
> > window and recreate the ferret.jnl file, but today I had a crash where I
not
> > only lost the ferret session but the window I was working in also.
> >
> > Mark Verschell
> >
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