It's a pity, because if you are on a Unix box you're probably a little more computer-savy and your environment is much more programmer or power user friendly (a good part of what you do on a Unix box is text file editing ad manipulation, so Perl is at home in this environment).

On the other side, it would be quite a crash start to start the average Windows user with Win32::OLE, however invaluable this proves when you've learnt your basics.

Maybe something that's file-oriented, like building an HTML catalog of all or some files or images on your hard disk, could be something easier....

Thanks anyway