>>All I stated was that either he knew about thye serious fault & did not bother to mention it, which is unacceptable - or he didn't know about it & really should have been greatful for some to highlight it for him.
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>No, you stated: "Once you've sorted out the deliberate errors in the above code" which means what I said and not what you said. Its insulting (almost as insulting as telling me thats not what you said).

If you're going to quote, quote the full thing, not the bit that is suitable for you :-

Once you've sorted out the deliberate errors in the above code, beware that it does no check for a path in the filename, this could be a particular problem if someone typed in something like "..\filename.ext", where filename.ext exists in the current directory - the fcreate followed by erase would ensure that it was deleted & let you know the filename was valid.

and if you bother following the thread through to the end, you will find :-

At the end of the day, the code had potentially catastrophic side-effects, which were not pointed out by Ed, either because he didn't realise (in which case he needed to be told) or he knew & just didn't bother (which is completely unacceptable). I really don't care who he is, how good he is (or thinks he is), if the code stinks, then I will point it out. If he feels insulted by the manner with which I did it, then he really ought to reassess the manner in which he replies to other people.