Billy, I do a lot of Perl on an NT box that eventually gets used in both NT and Debian. It was pretty frustrating at first, experiencing your problem. A nice little one-liner that I use after taking a script from NT to a linux system is: perl -w -i -p -e "s/\x0d//g" filename Stephen Neu Internet Development Characterlink.net "What is so difficult for developers to accept sometimes is that there already is a standard, and they didn't write it." --Steve Neu
