On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 05:27:32PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Quick fix would be to use 9, unless ash can be fixed in the same time. It's not ash's fault: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html#tag_001 Open files are represented by decimal numbers starting with zero. The largest possible value is implementation-dependent; however, all implementations support at least 0 to 9, inclusive, for use by the application. -- Mike Stone