Would someone please help me understand this code. I'm trying to use and only know little bit about FIFO within perl. I'm trying to use pipe command to bulk copy data (bcp) out of Sybase server. Need to understand this code and how it ends. Thank for responding. 
while ( 1 )
{
open(FIFO, " > $ENV{HOME}/.plan")
or die "Couldn't open $ENV{HOME}/.plan for writing:$!\n";
print FIFO "The current time is", scalar(localtime), "\n";
close FIFO;
sleep 1;
}

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Edit Masem 2001-08-17 - Code tags
Edit kudra, 2001-08-28 Extended title from 'Understanding Code'

In reply to Understanding Code which uses pipe to bulk copy data by dreman

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