John W. Krahn wrote:
Which operating system is this file on? Do you have ACLs or some such security to guaranty file locking? John
Hi John Thanks for replying to my email. The file is a CSV file and so it will sit on Linux and sometimes a Win32 machine. In terms of the file locking, I just use flock as well as the modules Fcntl. Kind Regards Brent Clark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>