I've started using Voodoo for document control. One thing you can do is lock a file when you check it in or out. I've noticed that even though a file is locked I can still open it in MacPerl and still save it if I change the file. Also, about my memory leak problem: I'm using MacPerl 5.0.7r1m. rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #9: "This is going to be excrutiatingly painful. More pain than you have ever felt." "You weren't around me when I heard they had cancelled Manimal." -Chris Elliott