According to Angus McIntyre: > A while back, I reported a possible problem with Matthias' new I/O routines <snip> I haven't tried the program yet, but when I read your message the first question which popped into my mind was: How many times does STDIN and STDOUT get re-opened? There is, after all, a limit to how many files can be opened at the same time and if you are doing this recursively you might be leaving a trail of open files. Just a thought.... ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch