perlquestion mandog In Perl 5.8 <code>perldoc -f open </code> tells me:</p> <code> # [...] File handles can be opened to "in memory" files held in Perl scalars via: open($fh, ">", \$variable) </code> <p> Is there a way to open files in memory in Perl 5.6.1. ? </p> <p>A lot of our test code does kludgy stuff like write test files to /tmp </p> <p> On related note is there a good module or technique for Perl 5.8 that allows a RAM based dir ? </p> <p>I have a script that tars a bunch of files. It would be nice to put them in a directory before tarring them and the end user doesn't want to create temporary files. I've taken a quick look through CPAN but nothing jumped out at me. Please feel free to point out something I've overlooked </p> <p><small><b>update:</b> By &quot;RAM based file system&quot; I mean soemthing like: &quot;not on physical disc&quot;, something that nothing but root with a debugger and my program can access. </small> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-91846"> <BR><BR><A>email: mandog</A> </div></div>