In article <7tdie6$cq1 at dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>, aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote: > I haven't really looked at your code, but I needed to mention that > 'open(file,"w")' will cause the file to become zero bytes long. Isn't that what touch does? ---Preston Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.