Ah yes...!

Now I see the trap I fell into. My original code indeed had things after the get - it was supposed to write to a file.

I was led astray by the fact the file wasn't generated by the original code. i assumed this went in hand with the segfault. However now I look without blinkers I see it is a permission error preventing the write. ie with tweaking it does in fact run to completion as you suggest.

I never generated a segfault before and it frightened me...

So you are saying I found a bug and this is NOT MY FAULT? Seriously never happened before..!

roboticus - big hat off to you. Great diagnosis, very impressive!