If you're moving a file from Linux to Windows, there's a chance that you need to modify the formatting a bit. The two operating systems use different EOL line characters. On the Linux box, trying using the unix2dos shell command on the file, which would convert the EOL line characters. The only other thing that I can think of would be to use binmode.

Some of the replies in Windows and UNIX end of line characters might help you out or better explain things.

If you're still having problems, try posting some the code and data from the file and perhaps someone might be able to shed more light on the issue.

Binmode solved it - many thanks! I guess because I'm using non-standard DOS terminators.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::ReadBackwards;

my $file = 
'/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/File/ReadBackwards.pm';

tie *BW, 'File::ReadBackwards',  $file, or
    die "can't read file $file: $!";
while ( <BW> ) {
                  print;
}
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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::ReadBackwards;

open(STDOUT, '>', 'tie.txt')
or die "Couldn't open file: $!\n";

my $file1 = 
'/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/File/ReadBackwards.pm';
tie *BW, 'File::ReadBackwards',  $file1 or
     die "can't open file $file1: $!\n";

while ( <BW> ) {
     print;
}

my $file2 = '/home/tie.txt';

open(STDOUT, '>', 'tie2.txt') or
     die "Couldn't open file $file2: $!";
tie *BW, "File::ReadBackwards", $file2
     or die "Couldn't open file $file2: $!";   
while ( <BW> ) {
     print; 
}
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