About print data on screen

[Michael Goffioul]

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Michael.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:44 AM, José Luis García Pallero
<jgpallero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a doubt about how GNU/Octave print some data on screen. For example,
> if I execute the bellow script:
>
> for i=1:5
>     a = 4
>     sleep(1);
> end
>
> It must be print on scree the number 4, sleep one second, print 4 one more
> time, sleep one second again, ... fivr times. But in my computer (centrino
> laptop, Debian Sid and GNU/Octave compiled manually -no Debian binary-)
> GNU/Octave sleeps during 5 seconds (for i=1:5) and after it prints on screen
> a=4 five times. But if instead a=4 sentence I write warning('Hello') the
> script runs correctly: print Hello, sleep one second, print Hello, etc. How
> is the reason of this strange behaviour.
>
> Thanks.
>
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