> I have seen in a few scripts now, including some of the articles that Mr. > Schwartz has written. I have read it does something with the buffers but on > a more technical level what is that? > > Robert >
Since this is a general Perl question not related to CGI it is better asked to [EMAIL PROTECTED] perldoc perlvar Will give probably the least friendly and most technical version. Specifically under OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH. The tricky parts being that it is specifically the "currently selected" output, see, perldoc -f select (first form) For more on that, and that buffering may or may not be implemented for a given type of handle (though most are). Helps? http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>