Oh, there you go again, making easy things easy and hard things possible, and simpler than they otherwise would be. :) I like the Mac::Resources::Simple idea. I think I'll play around with it. By trading disk space for RAM space and speed, something like this might solve a nasty "out of memory" condition I'm running into. -- Creede > I don't think tie() would be needed here. I envision a > simple OOP interface. > > ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org