Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl 5.0.5 Can Only A Script Once

[Angus McIntyre <angus@aegypt.demon.co.uk>]

At 3:52 PM 09.01.96, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> ... the new version of MacPerl, 5.0.5, can run a script on
>my Power Macintosh only one time ... If I try the same script again, I get no
>output.  If I close the MacPerl output console window, it does not reappear
>with new output when I run the script again. MacPerl 4.1.x worked properly ...

        [ ... and one message later, Paula Patel reports the same thing ... ]

Am I right in thinking that the script runs, it's just that the output
doesn't appear? If so, then I can report that this occurs on my 68K machine
(a IIci) as well. I've found that setting output to flush immediately, i.e.

        $|=1;

seems to help.

                        A

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