Jeff Pinyan writes: > read(FILE, $file, -s FILE); Oooh, very cute. So does this work on Windows? -s returns the number of bytes in the file, but does read() want a character count or a byte count? Nat ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe