I am okay with the script, but appreciate the more perl-ish way of doing things and will take on your suggestions (except the flush-left comments, yuk :) The subclassing is the most important part; it needs to look at some parent/global context to get the path, which I can do by adding a sub to MyPSX to set the path; e.g., sometimes I want crypto:ssl:app, sometimes I want app:crypto:ssl, etc. Thank you VERY much. I will post back in a day or two.