> > Standard error is unbuffered, eg, one char at a time, so it makes one > > write system call per character, hence its slowness. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Surely you mean "per call". It *ought* to be "per call". On many systems, in *fact* it is "per character". -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry