Criminy. Turned out to be a race condition and the file truly did not exist yet; insufficient testing showed the false correlation which made it seem like it was caused by dashes in the file name. But the error message didn't help -- NO SUCH FILE would have been better than "undefined".
-- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list