Thanks much. =) I'd looked at all of that, but I thought inet_aton was related to something else. The pod wasn't much help, either. Thanks again, Strider | --+-- "If it's easy, you're not fighting hard enough." | | ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch