Phil wrote:
Never mind, worked it out. I was slurping the whole output file at once and inserting in the buffer. When parsed and inserted line by line, the "whiting out" stopped. I still wonder if I should be forking anyway however.
http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-20b1c1d3a92f0c61515cb88d15e06b686eba6cbc There's more complexity to it than that, but that would be where to start. -Ken