By the way, always check your return code.
My suggestion would be to use

 open OUTFILE, $OUTFILE or die $!;

--- Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  |  $probefile = "<probe.log" ;
> >  |  $OUTFILE = ">>$probe_logfile";
> >  |  open(probefile) or die("ERROR: $! \n");
> >  |  open(OUTFILE) or die ("ERRROR :$! \n");
> 
> > You're not using open() correctly. You need to have something
> > along the lines of: 
> >     open(PROBE, $profile); 
> >     open(OUT, $OUTFILE); 
> 
> Actually, while I MUCH prefer the two argument version, I believe the
> one argument version of open() *almost* works like this, except that
> he
> should have said
> 
>  open ($OUTFILE);
> 
> ....I think.
> I hate that use, and don't use it, so I'm not sure....
> 
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