At 08:50 PM 8/19/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I do believe thbis is one of the reasons sysread is there
>
>perldoc -f sysread
Au contraire; sysread reads exactly the number of characters requested;
what I want is a way for programs that do <FH> all over the place to be
protected if someone throws a gargantuan number of characters at FH without
a newline. The $/ = ref_to_int feature is exactly the kind of feature I
was expecting to do this and I was disappointed that it didn't.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
