I have an irritating issue complicated by the fact that I do not have direct access to the box my perl script is going to run on, and I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a work around. I got a request a while ago to create a script that would look through a flat file exported from a database and figure out based on the contents of the database whether a file that ought to exist does or not. This I did, and it worked just fine on the test data I had. The problem comes in running the darn thing in production. It turns out that the flat file on the server is 8 Gig, and the open command dies. This is on a windows server that I do not have access to. (Someone else is running the script.) I also don't have a database ID to work with, hence the flat file. I'm going to try sysopen and see if that might work better, but while I'm waiting to hear back from the woman who actually has access to the box, does anyone have experience creating a filehandle and reading from very large files on a Windows NT server? I'm more of a unix persone myself...

In reply to reading from a huge file by esddew

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