Note: will not work on a Mac. :)

...works fine on my Mac, chipmunk.
What's wrong with yours? :-)

[localhost:~/Music] bbking% uname -a
Darwin localhost 1.4 Darwin Kernel Version 1.4: Sun Sep  9 15:39:59 PD
+T 2001; root:xnu/xnu-201.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
[localhost:~/Music] bbking% perl -le'$a=ord$/;print$a--while$a'
10
9
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1
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