And once again a Win question :)
I have a perl script invoked by RedMon -Redirection Port Monitor.
I read from STDIN and want to know which size the data from STDIN is. I've tried the following:
@status = stat(STDIN);
$size=$stat[7]

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Ok when I look into my WinNT printer-status window, I get the Information: Size: 4,00KB/80,7 KB. This shows me, that 4 K are allready sent to my script from totalling 80,7 KB data.

My perl stat(STDIN) gives me only the 4K, not the 80,7 K which I wanted to get, cause the rest of the data is somewhere in the spooler.
Is there a possibility to get access to this printer-spool Information from NT? Or must I save STDIN to a file first, than get the size info and after that process the script with the temporary created file?

Thanks for any help. 

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