While I could hide behind a "you need to do this for older versions of perl" the truth is I did not know you can now drop it :-) Thanks for the info. Getting slack on reading those man pages. I'll still probably use it for a while yet though just to make sure my random stuff is random across the board. 5.04 was a while ago now but some systems still use 4!

cheers

tachyon

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