I want to append text to every .txt file
This is the directory listing:

Directory of S:\Shares\NETWOR~1\StandardLoads 
12/18/2002  11:02a      <DIR>          .
12/18/2002  11:02a      <DIR>          ..
12/18/2002  11:06a                 444 addtext.pl
12/18/2002  09:02a                   0 Fiduciary_Group.txt
12/18/2002  09:02a                   0 Nationwide_Group.txt
12/18/2002  09:02a                   0 Relius_Group.txt
12/18/2002  09:02a                   0 Sales_Group.txt
12/18/2002  11:02a                  74 WordProcessing_Group.txt

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This is the code: 
#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
#Lou M 121702 @ GW
use warnings ;
use diagnostics ;
use strict ;

my $txt = "Windows 2000 SP3\nWindows Office XP\n" ;
foreach my $file (<*.txt>)    #For Each .txt file
                #in the directory 
                #this script runs from
{ 
    open ADDTO, ">> $file" or die "Can't open file: $!" ; 
}
                #Open all the .txt files
                #for appendding
print ADDTO $txt;        #Write the text
print "Done\n\n" ;        #Let the user know it is done

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My script only seems to be working on one file, the one with 74 bytes, but (shamefully) I don't know why.
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ellem@optonline.net
There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.

In reply to foreach not working as I expected by ellem

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