HardBurn

Thanks for your info. But being generally new to perl, I'm a little confused with your code. I know you opened a filehandle 'OUT' to the script I want to use. But what does the '|-' do? Is it some kind of pipe redirection?

Another thing :) what exactly is a module? Is it like an external sub-routine file, that has functions pre-defined for common uses... like CGI.pm?

Other than that I understand everything else you posted.

Thanks!
Alex