great.

I had looked at the $| option and had declared it equal to 1 at the beginning of the script, but it didn't do anything (perhaps because I was using select to change the default output before printing?).

What finally worked was adding the $| = 1 between the selects. So, I went from this: 

                                # Change the output to logfile
                                $filehandle = select LOG_FILENAME;

                                eval $menu[$var];

                                # Restore the filehandle
                                select $filehandle;

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to this: 
                                # Change the output to logfile
                                $filehandle = select LOG_FILENAME;

                                $| = 1;
                                eval $menu[$var];

                                # Restore the filehandle
                                select $filehandle;

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Many thanks to all.

In reply to Re: output caught in memory by melguin
in thread output caught in memory by melguin

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