Im having the same problem w/ writing to a file, using Win2k/ActivePerl Thinking that win2k is not handling the opening of files correctly. Please, without saying, dont use win2k, can someone post a work around? I updated w/ the suggestion you posted as such:

#!perl -w

open(FILE, "data.txt");          #opens data.txt in read-mode
while(<FILE>){                   #reads line by line from FILE which i
+s the filehandle for data.txt
   chomp;
   print "Saw $_ in data.txt\n"; #shows you what we have read
}
close FILE;                      #close the file.
$a = "keylogger.dat";
open FILE, ">$a" or die;  #opens file to be written to
while(<>){                    #while we're getting input from the keyb
+oard
   print FILE $_;             #write it to our file
}
close FILE;                   #then close our file.

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"Re: File Input and Output by gpoduval on Jan 30, 2001 at 06:42 hmm...when i tried the >>filename nothing got appended into the file. it remained as it is i am using activestate activeperl for windows on win2k. i suspect this might be because i dont know how to end a program. anybody can help me ? www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~gokulpod"

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