On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:15:34PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote: > Have you tried creating a non-overwritable non-readable zero-length file > in its place? Unfortunately it creates what seems to be a randomly named file. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM