Nix writes: >A *user* of GNU awk's networking facilities? > >(Is this the first?) Perhaps. But I can probably beat that. One of my former colleagues has taken to writing networking code in shell scripts. Gotta love bash... Tet -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug