Hi, Two questions. One, I am compiling a c++ program on Solaris and i used gcc -o program.exe blah.cpp ha.cpp -(somthing) i forgot what teh something was but it eliminated the problem of unreferenced operators in the program. something like -$lstrp or something like that. Two, i am using this while loop in a perl script while() { } but it keeps going forever or does nothing butjust sits and i cant get out of it unless i restart the ssh connection. the code is like this: open(IN"some bin file"); while(){ if (!m/^\#/ && $dormcnt 20){ chomp; $dormcnt++; ($ip,$flows,$oct,$pack) = split(" ",$_,4); &getipnam; print MAIL "$ip\t$name\t$oct\n";}} so it just gives me a new line and i can type whatever but not get back to the prompt... any help would be much appreciated. joe

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