I'm in need of a Perl plumber. Got a problem running Lincoln Stein's sample code on page 48 in both Linux and Windows. Neither system delivers the results promised in the book. 

Windows98 (Perl 5.6.1) outputs this:

Bad command or file name
Writing line 1
Writing line 2
Writing line 3
Writing line 4
Writing line 5
Writing line 6
Writing line 7
Writing line 8
Writing line 9
Writing line 10
Wrote 1 lines of text

While Linux (Perl 5.005) gives me this:

Writing line 1
Broken pipe

Stein says the script will do this:

Writing line 1
Read_three got: This is line number 1
Writing line 2
Read_three got: This is line number 2
Writing line 3
Read_three got: This is line number 3
Writing line 4
Broken pipe

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For the code from the book, see next page: 
# First file ==================================
#!/usr/bin/perl
# file: write_ten.pl
# Figure 2.3: Write ten lines of text to a pipe

use strict;
open (PIPE,"| read_three.pl") or die "Can't open pipe: $!";
select PIPE; $|=1; select STDOUT;

my $count = 0;
for (1..10) {
  warn "Writing line $_\n";
  print PIPE "This is line number $_\n" and $count++;
  sleep 1;
}
close PIPE or die "Can't close pipe: $!";

print "Wrote $count lines of text\n";

# SECOND FILE ===============================
#!/usr/bin/perl
# file: read_three.pl
# Figure 2.4: Read three lines of text from standard input

use strict;
for (1..3) {
  last unless defined (my $line = <>);
  warn "Read_three got: $line";
}

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