Re: Changing the name of STDOUT...

Seems to me that you should be able to do this:

*MAILPIPE = *STDOUT; # Point the MAILPIPE symbol to STDOUT's
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...before your first print MAILPIPE and it should redirect to STDOUT instead.

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Re: Re: Changing the name of STDOUT... by clintp (Curate) on Feb 20, 2001 at 01:52 UTC
It's not nice to go mucking around in someone else's namespace. Further, when you alias a filehandle, your stdio library is going to get very confused when you seek, tell, close, dup and do other things to the underlying filehandle. Use the `open(MAILPIPE, ">&STDOUT") or die` idiom instead.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Changing the name of STDOUT... by thor (Priest) on Feb 20, 2001 at 01:19 UTC
That did the trick! Thanx	[reply]