At 13:56 -0700 9/29/00, Bruce Van Allen wrote: >It's not that simple. For example, if BBEdit has a file open, it >doesn't exclude my Perl scripts from opening and writing to that >file. If it's opened first in BBEdit and then in Excel, Excel can >write to it (save), but BBEdit can't (until Excel closes it). BBEdit, in common with some other applications, does not keep the file open while one is working on it. --John -- John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org