>Rolling my own sounds a little too >daunting, and I'm assuming even just using something like DBM may prove >to be a steep learning curve for some (ok, me ;) I don't know, DBM is pretty simple, and once you've used perl for a while, you'll be ready to roll your own operating system. :-) >And while I think freely available source code is a great thing, to >many users it is probably about as useful as those AOL cd's... Yes, clearly, but the audience of my message and this discussion is MacPerl users, and MacPerl users savvy enough to find and join the mailing list. To *those* users, freely available source code is a wonderful thing (well, at least to *this* member of that group :-)) Brian ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch