On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:13:55PM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Jay Kline wrote:
> > open PASSWD, '>' . $passw_file or die "There was an error opening the password
> > file.\n";
> 
> Never seen a file opened that way, try:
> 
> open(PASSWD,">$file");

His usage should be equivalent, but I suppose the lack of (parens)
could be confusing the interpreter.

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