On Sun, 3 Jan 1999 09:12:45 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote: >But the question was how to do this portably. This method works of MacOS >particulars and will not work on other platforms. It works on PC too. In fact, it should work on any platform with implicit locking when opening a file for output. Bart. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch