On 02/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Yennie</b> <<a href="mailto:briany@qldlearning.com">briany@qldlearning.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Reading from a file should be perfectly safe even if it is in use -<br>writing is the dangerous one. </blockquote><div><br>True - but I see no advantage over using the built in exists() function and removing the stack from memory afterwards - it is not subject to file format changes, detects if a stack is corrupt and I doubt is any slower?
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