[Steve Austin] > You would if instead of a "file" type it *actually* held > a tuna sandwich! :-) > > (You can open and close a tuna sandwich, but have you > ever tried to read one? Urh! Messy! :-) In other words, you don't care whether it's a file, you care whether you can read() it? That makes sense to me. Cheers, // mark -