Well last night I tried to delete all those darn *.txt files in my cgi and perl directory. And I found out that in my editor that I use to run and code my Perl, that there was a checkbox in the menu that said "Enable Taint checking". As soon as I saw this i was FURIOUS! I lost about 4 XP on that Unlinking... post. Plus, I had to waste all of your time for my ignorance. So I am sorry. After that I unchecked that box and ran the script and sure enough it deleted all the text files that I didn't want, thanks

Wanna be perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian