Hi.. I'm trying to get file stats off various networked data volumes, and I've been using opendir and readdir... however, it takes ages for anything not on the current segment. Someone has suggested using File::Find instead, but the (to my eyes) meagre documentation doesn't give me ay clues... could someone point me in the right place?... I've included the main snippets of rough code so you can see what I'm trying to do... (P.S. this is for NT/Netware systems, so cdate actually gives me creation date) many thanks Phil DG 
Main code here
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   pathstat($pathname, $file_count, $dir_count, $total_size, $aged_fil
+e_count, $aged_total_size);
   print "\n\nFile Statistics for $pathname\n".
         "\ntotal file count is $file_count\n".
         "total dir count is $dir_count\n".
         "total size is $total_size\n\n".
         "number of files between $lowrange and $highrange days old is
+ $aged_file_count\n".
         "total size of aged files is $aged_total_size\n";
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sub pathstat {
   my($arg_pathname) = $_[0];
   my($dir_entry);
   my($dir_handle) = "BIN" . $_[2];
   my($file_age);
   my($file_size);
   opendir($dir_handle, $arg_pathname) or die "Can't open $arg_pathnam
+e: $!";
   while (defined($dir_entry = readdir $dir_handle)) {
      if (-d $arg_pathname . "\\" . $dir_entry) {
         if ($dir_entry ne "." && $dir_entry ne "..") {
            ++$_[2];
            pathstat($arg_pathname . "\\" . $dir_entry, $_[1], $_[2], 
+$_[3], $_[4], $_[5]);
         }
      } else {
         ++$_[1];
         $file_size = (-s $arg_pathname . "\\" . $dir_entry);
         $_[3] += $file_size;
         $file_age = (-C $arg_pathname . "\\" . $dir_entry);
         if ($file_age >= $lowrange && $file_age <= $highrange) {
            ++$_[4];
            $_[5] += $file_size;
         }
      }
   }
   closedir($dir_handle);
}

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