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In article <37441330.98141F7D@ihug.com.au>, jam wrote:
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|      System.out.print(received);
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| The strange thing is, when I have that in a loop, it doesn't get printed
| out if I have it as print, but if i have it as println, it is fine

Sounds like System.out is line-buffered.  You'd expect it to be.

| Is there anything in java that is kind of like fflush() in C that flush
| the stdin/out put??

System.out is a java.io.PrintStream, which has a public void flush() method.
In other words, use

  System.out.flush().

Do you have the manuals for Java?  If not, they're on-line at
http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/index.html