Synopsis: $write( ) $writeb( ) Technical: This function writes the given text to the given file descriptor. A newline is automatically appended to the text. The $writeb() variant does the same thing, except the newline is not automatically appended. Practical: This function is useful for saving information to an external file. It is most often used in scripts for saving configuration settings and the like. The $writeb() function is useful for writing to binary files, or for writing lines to a file incrementally. Returns: -1 if file descriptor does not exist > -1 number of bytes written (text length plus newline, if applicable) Examples: $write(7 blah blah) writes "blah blah" plus NL to fd "7" $write(foo bar) "foo" not an fd, writes nothing $writeb(7 blah blah) writes "blah blah" to fd "7" $writeb(foo bar) "foo" not an fd, writes nothing See Also: close(6); open(6); read(6)