...I thought creating a empty file, it is no
different in any situation.
It is if you can avoid creating the file at all!
The thing is, often a person thinks 'to get to Z,
must use A', where Z is a goal, and A is a
strategy.
But sometimes 'Z can be achieved instead by
using 'B' (a more advanced form of 'A') or by
using both 'X' and 'Y', which completely avoid
both 'A' and 'B' and go directly to 'Z' in 1/100th
the time!
You seem to be in the mode of 'must use A - how
do I do it with A?' That is just plain dumb, and
results in long threads where people have to
'tease out' the actual purpose of it all.
I am not saying any particular person always
(or even regularly) chooses the wrong strategy,
but this being a discussion forum, expect people
to be interested, and want to know, what the purpose
is. Expect people that want to discuss the entire
problem, not just the path that a poster thinks will
solve the immediate task.
And if you are about to chime in and argue that
this file was invaluable and indispensable and the
entire purpose of the program, then ..you've missed
my point completely.
--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/
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