Actually, I tested this under windows. At first I didnt use binmode on the filehandles, and it wouldnt work with binary files. But once I added that it worked fine.

Thanks for the sugestion of using \r, Ill try that.

zzSPECTREz

UPDATE:In rereading your post, I think I missuderstood it.. Ill have to try the \r to see if it works under windows.