If I understand your "fadhb" right then you shouldn't have to put "\c" in at all, or use buffering.
If this is what you mean. 
print "Starting process.......\n";

 ...........Some Irrelevent Code.........

print "DONE!\n"

[download]
This will produce 
Starting process.......
DONE!
Hope this helps.

All the Best, Eoin...

If everything seems to be going well, you obviously don't know what the hell is going on.

P.s.You should look up some nodes on how to write questions proberly and this way you will get more responses. ;)
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In reply to Re: Shell-like "print" by eoin
in thread Shell-like "print" by monk_wannabe

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