Corion, ^Z does more than just mess up reading from binary files. Consider the following code (I know it's nonsense, but bear with me): 
#/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
my $query = new CGI;
print "Where did this line go?\n";

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That code will work fine on linux, but in Active State Perl on my Windows box, that last line will never appear if I run it from the command line (admittedly, this might happen in all WinPerl versions). You can imagine my fun in debugging that.

What's going on is that when I instantiate a new CGI object, I have to enter name=value pairs in offline mode. Then I press ^Z to stop that. Nothing else prints until I print a newline! (I've tried $| = 1 to no avail).

Needless to say, this has made my life hell when I've debugged CGI scripts and forgotten about this little "feature".

Update: To make matters worse, this feature appears to be intermittant. Every once in a while, with no code changes, "Where did this line go?" will appear.

In reply to RE: Re: More on hex pack/unpack by Ovid
in thread More on hex pack/unpack by BBQ

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