Fw: works when printing to screen, not when printing to file! - SOLUTION!?

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works when printing to screen, not when printing to file!

Hi, I have an issue that makes me think there maybe something fundamental I'm misunderstanding about how perl operates. The code below simply replaces the ASCII SOH character \001 with a space in real time on a logfile. And it works great if the output is printed to screen, BUT, if it's printed