Hi Ted,

Thanks for the response... I was trying to do this in Perl but was not
succeeding... tried again with renewed vigor and it seems to have worked...
thanks for the input!

Eben

#THIS works!
    open(FILE1, '+>FILE1');
    print {FILE1} "1\n";
    close(FILE1);

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Ashton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:43 PM
To: Eben Yong
Subject: Re: Another Apache/iX and Perl/iX system() question


Eben,
  As always, Mark will give you the best answer :-), but I'll give it a shot
anyway.  Here, so far as I can tell, you aren't having a buffering problem,
but a permissions one if any.  Of course, your program appears to be
printing
something to STDOUT, calling system which in turn calls the CI which in turn
echoes '123' out to FILE1 (not printing anything to STDOUT) and then prints
some other stuff to STDOUT.  Is that what you are wanting to accomplish?
Would
it not be easier to just open the file in perl, print to it and close it
again?

Ted "P'raps I've misunderstood" Ashton
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