At 22.04 -0500 12.27.1998, Greenblatt & Seay wrote: >If I understand what you meant by "that should lock the file, and then >unlock it open exiting the program" then I'd say you're right. Yes. I think it is a reasonable solution to the problem, until/unless we can find some way to actually implement flock(). Maybe even use this as a recommended method to people who want to do flock()ing in MacPerl. If anyone has better or alternative methods, I am all ears. Or eyes. -- 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