in reply to Perl CGI Possibilities...

I apologize for not specifying: I had planned to issue "updates" which would go to the site, get specific characters, and store them correctly in the appropriate directories. These updates would be done just once. Anytime an update is out, then it would be aquired( probably a simple text file ) then once the person is connected to the net, they could run the program and it would retrieve the information they need... Thank you Macphisto

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