According to Mark-Jason Dominus: > >> b) discard the buffered I/O system entirely and rewrite everything in > >> terms of sysread(), effectively reimplementing the entire buffered I/O > >> subsystem in Perl. > > What you appear to be suggesting is (b). Have I missed something? No, I missed Careful Reading in Politeness Class. --me "Never mind." -- 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." // MST3K