Thats cool dude, but Im being helpful in order to increase evil...
The better you get at coding, the more frustrating your "next" problems
will become...
And when I stop helping ... thats when my evil intentions strike...

And as for only calling for help when really stumped, I understand. Im the same.
And I can see from your post-counter that its not lazy, its a true mental road-block.

Anyways, back on topic now...

Heres how to check thet the ME exists.
The PROC_GLOBAL is to prevent the entire function aborting when the ME vanishes.
Cause if the entire function aborts like that, the file gets left open...
Code:
...
if (filehandle)
{
   proc_mode = PROC_GLOBAL;
   ...
   while(temp < count)
   {
      if(!me)   break;     //abort reading if entity gone.
      ...
      wait(1);
   }
...


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