Blake Huff wrote: > Maybe I missed something, but isn't the correct call fopen()? I > can't even get a program with the command 'open()' to compile... You're doing something wrong if open() doesn't work. It is one of the most basic C library functions. fopen() is the stream version of open that operates on a FILE * instead of a file descriptor (int). http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/open.html http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html Brian