Thank you, I am still researching the links. I am debating having the files stored on a linux box and the processing that is win32 dependent on a 2000 box. I don't know yet I would like it to work on both in the end. But that envolves the evolution of Tie::Registry to be POSIX capable, and a change to DBI for me. But this code is the working model I would than tweak it once it processes correctly. Out of curiousity did you search for these links, have you found them before or a combination of both, because I can usually find enough information to get me started but I couldn't on this subject.