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From: tbertels@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM (Tom Bertelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Write(2) in Perl
Message-ID: <1585@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 90 14:13:16 GMT
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Organization: NCR World Telecomputing Center - Dayton, OH
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While working on a Perl program that will move a lot of binary data I
discovered the following in the manual:

	Note that write is NOT the opposite of read.

I can use read and unpack to handle the data coming in, but how can I
get it out again?  I'm currently using 'printf STDOUT "%128s",
$buffer;', but want to use a larger buffer (it writes to a streaming
tape).  Am I missing something obvious, ar am I just out of luck?
-- 
Tom Bertelson			DISCLAIMER:  My opinions are my own and
Tom.Bertelson@Dayton.NCR.COM	in no way reflect those of my employer.
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