On Mon, 04 May 1998 11:45:22 +0200, Matthias Neeracher wrote: >sysseek always returns the end position, so > >sysseek FILE, 0, 0 > >is the equivalent of "tell". This will change the current file position as well. You must have ment: sysseek FILE,0 ,1 But anyway, thanks! This actually lets me reduce two code lines to just one.:-) Bart. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch