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Your standalone program is buffering its output. Try setting $|=1; (update: in the printing program!) before printing anything. $| has no effect on reading, only on output.

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Re^4: print output from system command in real time
by boat73 (Scribe) on May 11, 2005 at 12:08 UTC
    Hmmm, the problem is that the exe I am truly running does the same thing and I am unable to modify that code. System didn't work, still waits til completion to print.
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