I guess Perl does a buffered write. Soo the un filled buffers may not get
flushed when the process terminates abruptly as it does in C.
David,
What made that APPEND to work. If you don't mind can you explain?
Thanks,
Venkat
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| Are you closing the APPEND file at the end of the process?
As long as the process terminates, the close() will happen automatically.
| open(APPEND,">>testfile") || die print "Can't open testfile: $!\n";
What is "die print"? You only need one of them.
-spp
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