On 9/14/06, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:
last time i checked it did...wait...yes, it still does not crash when
the object is created without a filename (or no filename at all).

and you are right, my quick test for existence calls the object without
arguments.

I'm having trouble getting file handling not to crash even when using an 'open' message.  Perhaps it is some MS vs Unix file problem?  In debugging some of the pointers just go bad and I haven't discovered why yet.