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Hello netters,

  I know very little about UNIX (in fact I am using VMS for almost 9yrs now).
A friend of mine had the following problem:
"His program (all written in FORTRAN by 1-2 people years ago) takes quite
some time to finish. He is writing info produced at
run time to 2-3 output files. However, 90% of the runs are proved to be
useless quite soon; so he uses CTRL-C to abort execution. But then he finds
no info in the output files. I am guessing that the UNIX file buffer system
still keeps these numbers in the buffer and what he needs is to flush the
buffers after each single write. Could someone tell me how can this be
accomplished in UNIX? (he is using HP-RISC and SUN SPARC-I workstations)."

  I would appreciate any help/comments (replies either by e-mail or in the
news are fine). Thank you,

				Petros Dafniotis
				Chem Engr Dept, UW-Madison
			e-mail: dafnioti@cae.wisc.edu

PS: I managed to do that by using really a C function to do all open/fprintf/
    fflush/close commands. But I would prefer a FORTRAN way (if possible).