Thread Subject: flush diary to file

Hi,

I am using Matlab to do very long computations. The program will
constantly output some information to the screen. So I use the diary
command to write the information to file. However, it seems that the
information will not be written to file until I issue the "diary off"
command. Is there a way to force Matlab constantly write the file once
new information is printed on screen? Note that the information is
output from other programs that I cannot change. So using fprintf or
other file IO commands is not an option for me. Thanks.

Jie

"cockroach" <chen.future.jie@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am using Matlab to do very long computations. The program will
> constantly output some information to the screen. So I use the diary
> command to write the information to file. However, it seems that the
> information will not be written to file until I issue the "diary off"
> command. Is there a way to force Matlab constantly write the file once
> new information is printed on screen? Note that the information is
> output from other programs that I cannot change. So using fprintf or
> other file IO commands is not an option for me. Thanks.

Start MATLAB with the -logfile option instead of using DIARY?

http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/matlab_env/f8-4994.html#bq24t0c

I believe the logfile updates more frequently than the DIARY file.

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