indeed, i know... it's not beautiful et al what i just did... but i needed a quick solution.

and yes, i should use warnings and use strict (and usually i do), but this script is 3500+ lines and using strict on that script, phieeeuw, it's not good for the faint of heart. ;-) (it was written when i was a total perl newbie ;-) shit.. i still am!!! )

but i'll try and update some of the subroutines to take the two variables as arguments instead of using the package variables...

so thanks again for the hard lessons