Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mcnc!uvaarpa!umd5!ames!amdahl!uunet!grand!day From: day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon Subject: Re: open ("command", "wp) Message-ID: <399@grand.UUCP> Date: 12 Jan 88 05:59:07 GMT References: <8801091948.AA28813@megaron.arizona.edu> Reply-To: day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) Distribution: inet Organization: Grand Software, Inc., Los Angels, CA 213-650-1089 Lines: 7 Thanks. I'm relieved to know that if I explicitly do the close, as I agree I should have, it works properly. Still, the book does say that open files are closed automatically upon program termination, so my program should have acted as if I had done the close. I have already mentioned this to the Icon Group. --dave yost