According to Mark-Jason Dominus: > $rec = <FH>; > but that implies some sort of buffering, and the buffering confounds > concurrent access. You could resort to sysread/syswrite/sysseek and just Not Do That (wrt readline). -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@pobox.com> "I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3KThread Previous | Thread Next