Just a thought, but this behavior might be caused by Perl buffering your output.
Try selecting your file handle and then setting $| to 1. That way Perl should send your output immediately. -----Original Message----- From: Bryan R Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:51 PM To: Beginners Perl Subject: Re: two way piped open And a follow-on question: Any idea why I have to send the yprtool two "\n"s instead of one to make it work? With just one it hangs... On the command line, it definitely works with just one. <snip> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
