flushing output with CLI (Win32/PHP 4.3)

[vtb]

Anybody know how to get a command-line php script to unbuffer its output?

I am resizing JPEGs and each one takes several seconds so I want it to tell me it's working on it with each file.

I have tried ini_set("implicit_flush",true) and ob_implicit_flush() and calling flush() myself after each echo("..."), all to no avail. I have also tried setting implicit_flush = On in my php.ini

Jeez, with Perl all you have to do is say $|++; :rolleyes:

TIA

[Eiki]

i also have the same problem
any solution?

[vtb]

Yes and no. I found a sort of workaround -- for my specific problem, perhaps not for yours. Open an Explorer window on the directory where new files are being written and sit there and watch the icons pop up one by one as the files are being created.

Workaround two is, use Linux instead. I put RedHat 9 on my home desktop box. It comes with a nice php 4.2.2 binary and when I say

ini_set("implicit_flush",true) ;
    for ($i=0;$i<10;$i++) {
   echo "boink\n";
   sleep(2);
}

that' s what it does, instead of doing nothing and then dumping the output all at once like it does on Windoze.