Many thanks for the helpful feedback from John W. Krahn, Andy Bach, and David Christensen. I have a lot to work on and I am grateful to all of you for steering me in useful directions.
A special thanks to John W. Krahn, who not only zeroed in on what is likely the probably source of my problem, but also made me face the one aspect of perl that I have long been hopelessly confused over: file locking. I'm still confused, but this time instead of blindly copying from examples in books, I will study the references he provided until I actually know what I'm doing (unless I die first: I'm almost 70). I may not understand much about programming, but at least it's fun! Rick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
