Please ignore my supposition letter. I sent that before I got all of my _other_ e-mail from the list. (I really hate double firewalls they really tend to mess things up.) Anyway, after re-reading Brian's and Matthias' messages I see no reason to continue on with this. Also, the original poster has already stated that they have made the changes to their programs and (I do not remember reading if everything has worked out or not) but if it has, then there is no reason to continue with this anyway. :-) Also, Matthias sent word that this _was_ a problem in earlier versions of MacPerl (and possibly the OS). But that it _was_ taken care of some time ago. So my information is out-of-date. :-) Sorry to anyone who might have almost had a heart attack over this. This doesn't mean that I won't still do the "better safe than sorry" OPEN/CLOSE/OPEN. But that's just me. :-) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch