I was following along with you, but you went way offside here. A lot of squiggly lines and plain text butchery so it's hard to read.

I can't agree that all *nix == Unix == *BSD etc, but I may be missing something. We already know the path name is incorrect, and I already stated more info from the OP is required, so I don't know if you're just repeating that, or implying I missed something beyond what I said in the post you're replying to, or my OP.

It seems illogical for you to respond with what you did here unless you posted verbatim output from a test on a Mac with little else. It's in no way additive to what has already been discussed on this thread, nor does it add any benefit; it suits to confuse more than anything... again, unless I'm totally missing something.

I responded in a very sane way, with logic. The only addition to my post would have been examples of tests that one would have run. That's it. Output to confirm.

In reply to Re^5: open and read text file by stevieb
in thread open and read text file by hchana

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