Re: File write/read problem

[Greenhalgh David]

On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 20:05 Etc/GMT, Ken Williams wrote:

Nope.  When you open for reading ("<"), it won't be auto-created.  It 
will when you open for writing or appending (">" or ">>").

 -Ken


Not necessarily on every Mac. The same thing happens to me here, 
opening a file for writing  does not create the file. I also have to 
open a blank file first. That's under 5.6 on 10.2.6.

(That was almost painless for a first post.)

Dave