On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:11:03 -0500, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote: >I had a simple program like this: > >open(THEFILE, "myfile.dat" )|| die $!; >while( <THEFILE> ){ > do something > } >close( THEFILE ); > >and MacPerl was attempting to read the whole file into memory at one >time. Are you sure it's not a Unix text file? Bart. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch