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From: usenet@carssdf.UUCP (John Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: ignore write(HANDLE);
Keywords: perl write
Message-ID: <261@carssdf.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 11:56:40 GMT
Organization: C.A.R.S.,Middlesex,NJ
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I seem to be having a problem with even the simplest scripts that use
the write stmt.  I do something like:
  open(HNDL); $^ = 'TOP'; $~ = 'FMT'; write(HNDL); etc...
and it does not write! (except sometimes), then later on in the same
program it will work.  Once it starts working, it seems to be ok. Writing
to stdout works more ofter it think.

  Is this a known bug?  Is there a work around? 
       John Watson,  Middlesex, NJ, USA     ...!rutgers!carssdf!usenet