Bart, In ancient times (teletypes) required both a carraige return, x0d, and a linefeed, x0a. Now, isn't the former the EOF character and the latter the EOL one? If so Perl hasn't escaped the dreaded "13"... Garry (a Perl newbie) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch