takarov2003 at yahoo.com wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: >>close(F1) or die "Perl fucked up. Reason: $!"; >>close(F2) or die "Perl fucked up. Reason: $!"; > > > Same here. Never seen Perl fuck up on closing a file. Usually > something in the OS or file system that does it. In this case, I'm pretty sure it's the user. --Ala