This sounds like a problem I'm having with both the Lingua::ISpell and Text::ISpell modules. Every script I write with them just hangs when an attempt is made to read from the spawned process's output pipe. Both modules use an open2 call from an _init() function prior to calling spellcheck(). Here's what they look like:

sub _init {
...
  $Lingua::Ispell::pid = open2( 
      *Reader,
      *Writer,
      $Lingua::Ispell::path,
      '-a', '-S',
      @options,
    );
...
}
sub spellcheck {
  _init() or return();  # caller should really catch the exception fro
+m a failed open2.
  my $line = shift;
  local $/ = "\n"; local $\ = '';
  chomp $line;
  $line =~ s/\r//g; # kill the hate
  $line =~ /\n/ and croak "newlines not allowed in arguments to Lingua
+::Ispell::spellcheck!";
  print Writer "^$line\n";
  my @commentary;
  local $_;
  while ( <Reader> ) {
    chomp;
    last unless $_ gt '';
    push @commentary, $_;
  }
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From a debugger, I see that it hangs at the line:

while ( <Reader> ) {
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By the by, I'm trying to write a litte script to check fields in a database for spelling errors and write out a log of misspelled words. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? ( I can't even run the example code for these modules without hanging. Oh, I'm on a Windows machine and cannot use a real operating system.)

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