**this is NOT an advertisement** I really my Slimp3 player. It's an MP3 player device that plays streams coming from my server. www.slimp3.com They say that it plays OGG formatted files and I located the code. It looks like: 
my $fh = FileHandle-new();
$fh->open("ogg123... | lame... &");
  ...
  #finally
$fh->close()

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So here's the problem. OGG123 starts 3 processes and lame starts one. When the close is initiated, only lame is terminated. The remaining OGG123 instances remain. Since I'm running this on a 500mhz machine I run out of jiuce too soon. I'm using perl v5.6.1 and slackware 8.1. The latest OGG and lame packages too. (the close is issued when the track finishes playing, the user presses stop; next or previous.) HELP!!!

In reply to FileHandle->close() is not closing everything by bucky

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