Output from Send Unix command stalled

after send a unix command to a client the output from
the command stalls. It seems that the output is buffered
and that the final buffers are not flushed. This behaviour
is new since 10.5.5 --
Anyone know of a way to control the buffer size, when
they are flushed or to how to run unbuffered ??
ARD 3.2.2 all around and 10.5.6 all around ARD on a Quad Xenon
and clients iMac Alum

well this seems to have been a red herring --
I had not set the "linebuffering" option on the
command
the command was lapply from the radmind suite
needed to set "-i"
thanks

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