How can I flush the output of disp in Matlab or Octave?

Question

I have a program in Octave that has a loop - running a function with various parameters, not something that I can turn into matrices. At the beginning of each iteration I p

Answer 1

From here and elsewhere, there are at least 5 methods to get immediate output, in Octave.

Use one of the following:

%---------------------------
% Turn OFF output buffering
%---------------------------
more off                        % command & NOT shown in output
PAGER = "less"                  % built-in var - shown in output
page_screen_output = 0          % built-in var - shown in output
page_output_immediately = 1     % built-in var - shown in output
fflush(stdout)                  % Need to call after each "output" line