>>>>> "HJ" == Herrington, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HJ> Compile-time? You mean, when I compile Perl 5.6 I can permanently disable HJ> taint checking? No, when your perl code is compiled, just prior to it being run. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/