On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:53:22PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> But my question still remains, how does one figure out what is going on when it
> fails like this? The open directive seems to be hit or miss, is there no way to
> find out what is going on other than to probe for each possible case individualy?

Check $!.

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