Re: flush function

2005-01-31 Thread Ankur Gupta
Urs Wagner wrote: Hello I have a problem on WinXP. In perl I want to read the tail of a file. The file is written with another windows program. If I am using a sleep(5) before of the read command I get the new tail content. It seems the program has longer to write it or it is buffered. Is there

Re: flush function

2005-01-31 Thread Ing. Branislav Gerzo
Ankur Gupta [AG], on Monday, January 31, 2005 at 19:30 (+0530) wrote these comments: AG> to flush the contents, set at the top of your perl program. AG> $| = 1; ^ this will don't cache STDOUT, if you want flush to file, just do it like this: open FILE, ">file.txt" || die "Can't open... $!\n"; se

RE: flush function

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Urs Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > I have a problem on WinXP. In perl I want to read the tail of a file. > The file is written with another windows program. If I am > using a sleep(5) before of the read command I get the new > tail content. It seems the program has longer to write it or >

Re: RE: flush function

2005-01-31 Thread mgoland
- Original Message - From: Thomas Bätzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:07 am Subject: RE: flush function > Urs Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > > I have a problem on WinXP. In perl I want to read the tail of a > file. > > The