>===== Original Message From "Balint, Jess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>Hello. What is wrong with this?
>
>perl -e 'for(1..300){sleep 1;print ".";}'
>
>It never prints anything.
>Thanks.
I wrote a script like this:
for (1..5) {
sleep 1;
print ".";
}
when i ran it, i timed it. it took exactly 5 seconds before printing
......
to my prompt.
I am willing to bet that it actually would print something if you waited 300
full seconds.
"I think for my lunch tomorrow I'll make a tuna and pickle triangle bunwich."
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