On Friday, November 14, 2003, 12:05:16 PM, T. wrote:

> no one responded to this and i still can't get it to work. please help. let me rephrase very simply:

> downloading file with open_uri and can't flush print to report download progress.

>> [snip]

>>     # THIS WON'T THIS PRINT!!!!!!!!!!!
>>       print "\ca{source_file_io.pos}KB/#{@source_size}KB"



I doubt it has anything to do with open-uri.  Try STDOUT.flush after
the print.

BTW, what does print "\ca{source_file_io.pos}" achieve?  Specifically,
the "\ca".

Gavin