From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ber Newsgroups: net.unix-wizar Title: Re: Identify program error messages, ple - (nf) Article-I.D.: harpo.892 Posted: Sun Jul 25 15:57:27 1982 Received: Wed Jul 28 03:32:36 1982 #R:watmath:-308200:harpo:12900007:000:122 harpo!ber Jul 25 15:57:00 1982 While you're at it, be sure to use perror() and pass the most likely offending argument to the last system call. brian