Hi Elden Crom, Ahhh, I understand what you want to do now. With just C++ and not editing the existing source code, I don't think you can do it. With Perl (or Ruby or Python) all things are possible. But it would probably be rather brittle. I don't think Perl (et cetera) could be made robust, if the code is still undergoing churn. Sincerely, --Eljay