I'm haveing a problem where the use of SEEK_END does not seem to work in seek(file_handel, offse, wence)" As used in my program 
open ($archive_file_handel, '+<', $archive_file_spec) or die "Can't op
+en $archive_file_spec: $!";

$first_line = <$archive_file_handel>;    # actually only line 

seek($archive_file_handel, 0, 2);        # works , appends to end
seek($archive_file_handel, 0, SEEK_END); # fails, writes to begining

print { $archive_file_handel } "another piece of data to go after head
+er\n";    # Write out junk for now

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I'm just using the seek(handel, 0, 2) for now, but would like comments if anyone has any ideas. Joe_Cullity

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