Bill Atkins wrote:

> STDOUT.sync = true   isn't necessary in that snippet.  Even though you
> haven't output a newline, the outbuffer will get flushed as soon as
> you call gets.


That's not a feature of Ruby 1.8.2
You may be describing *nix behaviour ?

On Windows, it looks as if the program is hanging unless #sync of #flush
is used.

[What's worrying is that I can't manage to spell acccount]


daz