Straight from the Perl Cook book.
7.12. Flushing Output (page 248) when printing to a filehandle, output doesn't appear immediately. This is a problem is CGI scripts running on some programmer-hostile web server, where, if the web server sees warning from Perl before it sees the buffered output on your script, it sends the browser an uninformative 500 server Error. ------------------------- $| = 1 #disables buffering (that is print when I ask you to) __________________ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]