At 09.04 -0500 1999.01.03, Bart Lateur wrote: >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. Yes, well, the point is that it is not portable to _all_ other platforms. I just woke up, you know. :) -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch