You can do autoflush STDIN 1;
However, output to the terminal is usually line buffered, see http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlvar.html There is also an autoflush() function in IO::Handle, see http://www.xav.com/perl/lib/IO/Handle.html -tristram -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]