Okay I am certain I will confuse myself in tying to give an explanation so bear with me. I am attempting to create a single file that consists of several lines of header written from an array as well as appending several megs worth of tar file data after the header. I have tried the following and am certain I am missing something. The initial header information is written to the file but the tar data from the second file is never appended: 
@header = ('BEGIN','WAFC','AREA_NAME','NODS','R','U','001','040','NONE
+','200103231510','NONE','AREA_NAME','END');


if(open(OUTFILE, "> $temp_header") || die("Cannot Open File $temp_head
+er for writing")) {
    
    foreach $line ( @header ){
        print OUTFILE $line."\n";
        print "$line \n";
        }

    if(open(OUTFILE2, "< $sample_upload") || die("Cannot Open File $sa
+mple_upload for reading")) {
        while (my $bytesread = read($sample_upload, my $buffer, 1024))
+ {
            print OUTFILE $buffer; 
              }
        }
            close (OUTFILE);
     close (OUTFILE2);

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I am relatively new to Perl so any enlightenment you might provide would be greatly appreciated. MadPogo

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