Nope.

If that was true, then why would the example immediately above your post work?

Perl doesn't treat 'STDOUT' as ANYTHING.

STDOUT is WHATEVER is hooked up to 'FD1' when you start your program.

No, I don't want to use curses, other than to throw them at people who are giving me every reason under the sun why they don't know why it doesn't work.

If I sound irritated, it's because I've went through a thread previous to this that entirely got sidetracked by people who didn't know the answer to the question, so tried to get me to do it some other way. I know a bunch of ways to "HACK" around the the problem, but none of them enlightenment me as to why the original problem doesn't work.

I don't need a solution -- I needed understanding of why it wasn't working.

In reply to Re^2: Don't understand why can't get 'size' assoc w/STDOUT by perl-diddler
in thread Don't understand why can't get 'size' assoc w/STDOUT by perl-diddler

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