As for autoflush -- what is that, and how would I enable it? What does that do, anyway?

When autoflush is on, it forces a flush on the filehandle after every print. It's generally a good idea for autoflush to be on for STDOUT in CGI scripts. The easiest way to do that is to put $| = 1; near the top of your CGI script.

Read perldoc perlvar for more information on the $| special variable. Also, perldoc IO::Handle contains some info on autoflush.

If I were you, I'd turn it on and keep my fingers crossed. Don't be disappointed if it doesn't work though. I'm guessing it won't.

As for muddling through thousands of lines of messy code... well, I'd rather do that than try to guess. :-)

-sauoq
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