chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) (06/14/88)
I habitually use copy nil: filename to create empty files. Under ARP1.1 I get the error message (if memory serves) Cannot open nil: On the other hand copy filename nil: is accepted without complaint (as long as 'filename' exists, of course). Needless to say, the original AMIGADOS copy doesn't have this flaw. I would like to know where it crept into ARP. I fear that it is likely to be in arp.library, in which case it may rear its ugly little head in other places as well. -- - It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be - - coming up it. -- Henry Allen - Charles Cleveland Georgia Tech School of Physics Atlanta, GA 30332 UUCP: ...!gatech!gtss!chas INTERNET: chas@ss.physics.gatech.edu