I will attempt to recap my conversation with you about these matters after the May weekend has concluded. Be sure, I did talk with you about this in the chatterbox at least twice. I will quickly note that you are using globals in an unsafe manner, system calls without checking for failure, and parsing perl. I recall raising more issues but I don't recall them at the moment.

Oh yes. It was also a disagreement with the purpose of the code. reset() is something meant more for perl4 code where we didn't have my(). Common best (or even mediocre to poor) practice uses my() to properly handle the issues you are attempting to handle by continuing in the perl4 idiom.