Thanks for the quick response! > Really, you'd be better off using one of the more interpreted languages > for this specific task though. Was afraid someone would say that. Time to polish up those tarnished perl skills ;) Matt ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly