At 15.30 -0500 1999.01.12, Bart Lateur wrote: >Yes, using "\0" (or "\000"). But open() chokes on it. sysopen() does, too. #!perl -w use Fcntl; sysopen(A, ":a\0b", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0755) or die $!; print A "heh"; close(A); sysopen(B, ":a\0b", O_RDONLY, 0755) or die $!; print while <B>; close(B); That produces a file called "a", and prints the text "heh". -- 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