note moritz [http://www.dotnetperls.com/reserved-filenames|Several] [wp://Filename|resources] suggest that <c>NUL</c> is a reserved file name, not <c>NIL</c>. I don't have a windows at hand to test it, but I'd guess it's actually NUL that is equivalent to UNIX' /dev/null. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-616540"> [http://perl6.org/|Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed] </div></div> 984472 984473