see, it's not really Dying. The problem is that it's NOT dying. It works great to a point. It runs. It sits there, and it prints out that it's finding 'LINE1' then it waits, then 'LINE2' ... Because in my code you see I have it printing the line that it pulls before passing it on. 
print "read[$line]\n";

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Is in the read_smdr. The problem is, if I, for instance, chop the data, the return is empty. Even though if I print $line, it shows the full 80 character line. If I pass it to another program, as I have in the code here: 
system("./parse_smdr", $line);

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the new program reports from it's args the first line perfect: It'll say: 
Parse[LINE1]

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from the command in parse_smdr that says: 
print "Parse[$line]\n";

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Like it's supposed to. Then the second iteration of READ, it'll pass empty string. No matter what. Even if you just run a standard perl command, the command returns as if it was passed an empty variable.... it's VERY bizzarre. Mind you, that the FIRST TIME the while loop in read_smdr runs it works PERFECT...

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