Echoing the other monks, more info would mean more help to you!

I'm going totally off the top of my head here, but I'm guessing you're trying to output something w/o a newline directly before something is getting processed?

Ex:

$x=9999999; 
print "Test1"; 
while($x--){0}
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Even though Test1 is passed to STDOUT, the while loop is processed before you see any output.

If that's the case, try tossing a newline in there. (Again, I'm going off the top of my head here.) Perl won't display the output buffer until a newline is present, the operation holding it up produces output, or the operation is done.

-inno