Hi, i know there is a much easier way to doing this, but i've been trying to make FLY (Martin Gleeson) send STDOUT and recieve input automatically through perl using a WindowsNT system and the IIS webserver. I know the problem lies with binmode, but i am not sure why it isn't working correctly. Just have a look: 
#!D:\perl\bin

$flyprog = "D:\\fly\\fly.exe";

print "Content-type: image/png\n\n";
binmode(STDOUT);

open(FLY,"| $flyprog -q ");
print FLY "new\n";
print FLY "size 256,256\n";
print FLY "type png\n";
print FLY "fill 1,1,255,255,255\n";
print FLY "circle 128,128,180,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "fill 128,128,255,255,0\n";
print FLY "arc 128,128,120,120,0,180,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "circle 96,96,10,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "circle 160,96,10,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "fill 96,96,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "fill 160,96,0,0,0\n";
close(FLY);

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If you know how fly works, if you don't specify an input file it takes its input from STDIN. If you don't specify an output file it sends its output to STDOUT. If you specify the -q option it works quietly. When it sends the image information to STDOUT, it doesn't send it in binary mode as i specified. If anyone could help me in understanding why, i would really appreciate it. Thanks!

In reply to Using FLY to print to STDOUT by chrono86

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