note prasadbabu <p>lakeTrout, </p> <p><i>what the options like -pie, pack and alike do and what they are for</i></p> <p>In the perl manpage, you can see [pack],[unpack] functions. There they have explanations for pack.</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-360010"> <p>Prasad</p> </div></div> 421195 421195