in reply to Re (2): perl-5.8.0 print statement
in thread perl-5.8.0 print statement

you aren't printing a newline after the output, which operating systems like linux require.

s/linux/Windows sometimes/ makes that statement correct. Though I've never figured out the details of when the missing newline presents a problem.

I've also seen Unix shells configured with "\r" at the start of their prompts which could hide the fact that the crypted string was output.

                - tye