If by this you mean 'this is code that does this in Frontier' and 'this is code that does the same thing in MacPerl' - YES! I would definitely be interested in such a thing, and I'd do what I could to help with such a thing. I've found myself saying, 'well, in UserTalk I just use string.paddWithZeros but in MacPerl I end up writing a subrountine to do it - yes it works, but is it the best way? Am I reinventing the wheel? I don't know... I'm a Frontier verteran/MacPerl newbie... Pete ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch