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At 03:15 PM 1/30/2002, you wrote: Always check the return value of system calls to make sure they have succeeded. I think your output file isn't getting opened. >open(OUT, ">docs.out"); should be something like, open OUT, "> docs.out" or die "Can't open output file: $!\n"; This way, if the OUT handle can't be opened, your program will die, and you'll get a message telling you something like: Can't open output file: Permission denied or Can't open output file: Disk is full With the original code, if the file handle doesn't get opened, Perl will go right ahead and keep sending output there, which, in this case, is the bit bucket. The script ran successfully on my Win2k SP2 system. Later, Sean.Thread Previous | Thread Next