-------- Nix writes: >The trick is to do the extraction before it hits the backticks. `` (or >its more recent nestable incarnation, $()), converts \n to whitespace. Errr... no they don't. Tet -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug