Jennifer Garner wrote:
$|=1;
Be careful with this one. The documentation for it makes it sound like it's a good idea to set this but doing so turns buffering OFF, not ON. Normally you leave this alone, even for pipes and sockets; Perl does the right thing in almost every case.
See: perldoc perlvar (search for $|) perldoc FileHandle -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "Probability is now one. Any problems that are left are your own." SS Heart of Gold, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>