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chdir isn't unique to each thread. If you chdir in one thread they all change.

Ah yes. I'd forgotten about that difference 'tween Windows and *nix.

You can't pass the full path to put ...

Really? Looking inside the module it does a sysopen which handles a fully qualified path just fine on my system.

... but, you can pass a file handle.

Anyway, glad you got a solution.

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