Here's the article on Ingy's IO::All, which I mentioned last night: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/03/12/ioall.html Here's its CPAN entry: http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/IO-All-0.15/lib/IO/All.pm I'm looking forward to making use of this module. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com/ *** New! *** http://www.perlmedic.com/