On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Jaberwocky wrote: > No, all I really want to do is print to STDERR
you can use warn() instead which writes to stderr and always autoflushes. or turn on autoflush of STDERR yourself, from perlfunc.pod: $oldfh = select(STDERR); $| = 1; select($oldfh); or update modperl-2.0 from cvs which turns on autoflush of STDERR by default.