I have this snippit of code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use English;
use diagnostics;
use File::Copy;
use File::DosGlob qw(glob);
my $error=0;
copy($_,'Z:/mail_test') foreach glob 'E:/EudoraPro/*.mbx';
printf ("Mailboxes done!\n");
copy($_,'Z:/mail_test') foreach glob 'E:/EudoraPro/*.toc';
printf ("TOC's done!\n");

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Some of it I picked up elsewhere some of it is my own. What I wanted it to do was to copy all the *.mbx and *.toc files to a network share for backup purposes and then to tell me it completed that task. The copying works fine, but I never see the "Mailboxes are done" and TOC's are done" messages. I'm using Activestate Perl v5.6.1 build 633 on a Windows 98 machine.

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