Darren New wrote:

> 
> The destructor will close the file when the GC collects the object, but 
> that might be several seconds later. And it might not run if you exit 
> the program before the GC runs, but that's true of C++ also. So it's not 
> quite as nicely deterministic, but it still happens eventually.
> 

C# has the same issue. You can sort of work around it with the using 
statement, which will call Dispose on an IDisposable object, which, in 
turn, closes the file.

-- 
~Mike

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