Im gonna have to think that one through, offhand I am not sure what causes this
but I realized theres one problem with doing a ls -al here, it shows . and .. and also it shows a total, so you might want to use $mail = `ls -Al | wc -l`; $mail--; and you could incorporate the formatting when you actually write to the file so it would be like print STAT "$mail"." messages"; > When I run the script this directory shows in my home: > > /etpipe_decode=$my_pipe_decode;unsetmy_pipe_decode > > and it contains the 3 dirs in my INBOX. new, cur, tmp > > ???? Not shure though what causes this :-/ > > >
