note etcshadow To create a "RAM based directory" is more of a task for an operating-system than a program. Really, you'd need to mount a new type of file-system (there may be support for some existing RAM-disk-based file-system in your OS or not). <p> What you have the option of doing inside your program is to <i>not</i> go to the file-system at all, which is what various perl constructs such as IO::Scalar and the similar builtin functionality in 5.8 do. <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-296575"> <br> ------------<br> :Wq<br> Not an editor command: Wq </div></div> 302088 302088