I recently ran a Perl script on my Windows Vista Enterprise machine
that appeared to go into an infinite loop. After it sat there for a
while apparently not doing anything I killed the window it was running
in.

Now I can't run that program any more, nor can I run any program that
pipes the command's output into a file handle. For example, I
wrote the very simple Perl script:

open( DIR_OTPT, "dir Drctry |");
print "Before.\n";
local @drFiles = ;
print "After.\n";
for $fileLine (@drFiles)
{ chomp( $fileLine);
print "[$fileLine]\n";
}
close( DIR_OTPT);

kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com wrote:

my @drFiles = glob "Drctry/*";

On Jul 5, 11:07 pm, Joe Smith inwap.com> wrote:

Thanks! This works.