Point well taken on mixing text and binmode. Doing the decode was getting pretty hairy as I had it.

I must say that I do not understand the pack("N(N/a*)" syntax. I know what N and a are but cannot find any docs on the parens; I did find docs on the slash and understand it now. (Though I have to admit that I have really TOTALLY avoided pack and unpack as they seem VERY confusing to me.)

Also why 2 N's? Seems it could be written as N/a* per the perlfunc man page.

Also, I get an error on the decoder as follows: 
/ must follow a numeric type at ./dcode2.pl line 7, <> chunk 1.

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Extrapolating this out it would seem that there is a syntax error in the decoder as it is written unpack "(N(N/a))*",$ind; and is seems it should probably be unpack "N(N/a*)",$ind; but that does not produce any output, just blank lines.

Ed

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