Re: perl 5.8.7-4: pipe from cmd.exe hangs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, The following perl program calls out to the Windows command shell to "type" the contents of a file and then prints the contents of the file. The program hangs at the "open" statement whenever the input file is larger than 12328 bytes on my Win2K installation.

perl 5.8.7-4: pipe from cmd.exe hangs

Dear All, The following perl program calls out to the Windows command shell to "type" the contents of a file and then prints the contents of the file. The program hangs at the "open" statement whenever the input file is larger than 12328 bytes on my Win2K installation. It will work for smaller f