On Sat, Feb 08, 2003, Sachin wrote: > I've been battling with this for one whole day. [Last bug discovered : The file overwrites itself ] If you mean the 'keyfile'. This is because you're using the function creat(). This function truncates the file if it exists. --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) jching at flex.com wh6brr at uhm.ampr.org