PerlIO_std... looks interesting. If I can retrieve it then I can muck about with it to my hearts content---actually all I want to do is display it in a 'nearly' realtime text window...Whole thing started as a challenge to drop 'perl' into a text editor and use it as a macro language<g>! Fun so far.

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