Tradez
Thank you for taking the time to answer my posting. Your advice is very much appreciated. since i would consider myself an almost middle tier Perl hack, i want to try to stay away from using system calls. i too think that would be the quickest and easiest way to complete this, but i am trying to use this as a means to grow my Perl skills. hence possibly trying to create my own module with scripts i already have made... :-) (maybe).
Thnx again though for the advice.
Ray