You can repair this ... by setting ... $| to true

I had tried that and found that it made no difference. But, you're right, it *does* fix the problem - and my original test of setting $| was apparently flawed. (I had tested it only on Windows, and there's a Windows bug that accounts for this.)

But that solution, in itself, raises another question. Why should setting $| fix the problem ? Setting $| should flush only the perl buffer, shouldn't it ? And that buffer was already being flushed by the trailing "\n". I don't see why setting $| should make any difference ... yet it does.

... you should always use strict;. Perhaps that was a transcription error

No, it wasn't a transcription error. If use of strictures has no bearing on a demo script, then I tend to dispense with it.

Cheers,
Rob

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