Is there a limit to how much you can read into a buffer ? ie open(INFILE,$fname); @mybuffer = <INFILE>; ---------------------------- andy.white@rmit.edu.au (academic) bibleBlack@bigpond.com (other) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch