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Hi juerd,

Your solution doesn't seem to produce the desired result. There four statements are printed at the same time after the long pause, not one after another after each pause.

kiat

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A delay effect...
by Juerd (Abbot) on Jan 05, 2002 at 17:31 UTC
    You are suffering from buffering.
    Either add linebreaks or set $| to 1 ($| = 1;) 

    2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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