--- patch-2.5/util.c~ Thu Jul 10 09:16:12 1997 +++ patch-2.5/util.c Sun Jun 6 18:16:30 1999 @@ -568,6 +568,8 @@ int r; va_list args; + fflush(stderr); /* Ensure pending errors are written before the question */ + vararg_start (args, format); vfprintf (stdout, format, args); va_end (args);