Allo, After getting tired of mucking around with the C code for Newshound, and having it throw segfaults, I've re-written it in Perl. I've tried it for a few runs, and it seems to be working well, and not eating as much CPU time as the C version did. the source code is here: http://www.gweep.net/~jer/newshound.pls please contact me with comments and suggestions. -jer -- jer@sidehack.gweep.net Programmer / Sysadmin / Gweep mpython@gnu.org -><- Author of Xtacy, an X11 Graphics Hack jer_johnson@real.life.edu http://www.gweep.net/~jer/index.html ICQ#: 19599864 AIM: DruelChaos MSN: Nope