Anette Seiler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>>From the command line I start the script with "perl script.pl". Now I *>have to enter some text. I just enter any text, either by typing or by *>cutting and pasting. I do not enter any strange characters or *>newlines. I just type in some text. I even take care to just use *>normal characters - no numbers, umlaute or anything else strange. *>As you can see, I did not play with $/. *> *>As I wrote in my initial mail, the answer I get is not the answer I *>expect. Whenever my input is more than 256 character, instead of *>printing everything I entered, it prints only the last part of what I *>entered, everything after character 256. The first part is chopped off.
I believe you :) It's a 'feature' of Sun's terminal driver which only allows lines of 256 characters. A workaround would be to force a linewrap at 74 chars or read $_ from a file. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
