Klaus- Sunday, June 5, 2005, 8:38:12 AM, you wrote: KM> Hi Jon, >> Is this syntactically correct? >> "if not there is a file fName then" KM> Yes, but sounds horrible, i know :-D Yes, but still easier to read than if (0 >= open(fName, O_RDONLY)) -- -Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net