i could've sworn i had that fixed, like i said my mail program ( kmail ) is kinda glitchy. but the fix is simple and i think its what i benchmarked it with also. instead of 'if($_<256)', 'if($_>0 & $_<256)' should do the trick... sorry for so many posts in such a condensed time, it seems like the FWP forwarder takes a very long time to parse out mail, nearly 30 mins.. michael salmon -- http://www.6x4.org "The 3 great virtues of a programmer: Laziness,Impatience, and hubris. --Larry Wall ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe