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From: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: weird behavour of system("uudecode", "t")
Message-ID: <1380@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 90 10:29:41 GMT
References: <9158@ditmela.oz>
Reply-To: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <9158@ditmela.oz> worsley@ditmela.oz (Andrew Worsley) writes:
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:  Is there anything that anyone knows of system in perl which could cause
:  a command to produce a truncated file?
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Hmm, usually perl buffers it's output. You need probably only add a
close(out) before you do the uudecode. An alternative is to set
$| = 1; (or something non-zero) to make output unbuffered.

	Jan D.