Hi Alain Williams wrote: > That is probably quite safe It's entirely safe: "Reads from the null special file always return end of file" from the book of man, section 4, the gospel according to saint null Cheers, -- Chris Jones cmsj at tenshu.net www.tenshu.net -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug