On 07.02.01 at 14:56, Jim Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I could turn autoflushing on in *my* scripts. The problem is that I may >not always be executing scripts that I've written. Then it's SEP; Somebody Else's Problem. Unflushed buffers are the documented behaviour when autoflushing hasn't been enabled. If you expect different behaviour you have a bug in your script. You don't want to try to automagically fix "bugs" in people scripts. Teaching pigs to fly and all that... :-) Of course, the different behaviour between MacPerl and CorePerl is a "bug" of some sort AFAICT. >Any solution in this situation? Unless you're talking about an Embedded Perl Interpreter here, no. But then I'm a UN*X dweeb -- and no expert either -- so someone (anyone?) else may have an idea (i.e. caveat emptor ;D).