wls@oculus.jsei.ucla.edu writes: >I appreciate your desire to help; but this is a perl list, MacPerl to be >more specific. I'm also interested in this problem, but I want a perl >solution -- not a frontier-based solution. I appreciate your desire to keep discussion here on-topic, but the original question was crossposted to the MacPerl and Frontier lists. While I would have assumed for Perl to have advantages in this problem, the Frontierspersons apparently were more communicative with solutions. Matthias ----- Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri "Johannes Scotus Eriugena, the greatest European philosopher of the 9th century, said that if reason and authority conflict, reason should be given preference. And if that doesn't sound reasonable to you, you'll just have to accept it..."