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Point taken. Although, with 16kb of ram it's doubtful that perl would run, never mind have enough room for extra buffering :)

I wasn't trying to be dismissive. If he genuinely has a problem with the performance he is seeing--he's deal with a slow NFS or a network share or similar--then that information might prompt a better alternative. Hence my question.

I could have made that clearer.

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