>>>>> "H" == HarryO  <harryo / zipworld.com.au> writes:

H>    $defout.print "Hello, world!"
H>    $defout.flush

H> produces nothing

 Probably I've not understood, but can you give an example for this ?

pigeon% ruby -e '$defout.print "Hello world !";
>                $defout.flush;
>                $stderr.print "after flush"'
Hello world !after flushpigeon% 


Guy Decoux