I'm using the format function. I'm having problems changing the page length with $= It keeps reverting to 60 lines. My filehandle is STDOUT. I need to use format becuase this is an old version of perl. Thanks. 
$= = 600;
format STDOUT_TOP =
+                      queue     proc_status
+                        |           |
+proc        prio        |    msg    |     log       broadcast   Share
+d Mem
+name                    |    type   |                  node      Segm
+ents
.

format STDOUT =
@|||||||      @||      @||||  @|||  @|| @||||||||||  @||||||||   @ @ @
+ @ @ @ @ @
 @ @ @ @ @ @
$x[0],$x[1],$x[2],$x[3],$x[4],$x[5],$x[6],$x[7],$x[8],$x[9],$x[10],$x[
+11],$x[12]
,$x[13]
.

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