Bear in mind that the NMS programs might be slightly less than Canonical in the sense that they are written to work with perl 5.00404 (when CGI.pm first got in the core) and greater. Nonetheless we like to think they are tidily coded and secure and we will fix them if you find a bug.

You could probably do it in about half the code with File::CounterFile if you have the luxury of installing modules.

/J\