Tom Christiansen writes: > Mythical patch to perlfunc: > > unpack "S*" any number of sextadecimettes > unpack "L*" any number of tricesisecundettes > or any number of quatroctets > or any number of deuxvingtsmoinsunoctets > unpack "Q*" any number of sexagesimaquartets Unableness to differentiate between accuracy of technical terms and fancy synonyms is most regrettable. You may flount your thesaurical knowledge of cool words (hey, I like cool words myself) as much as you like but you won't unwrite the use of the term 'octet' from technical literature. I'm cool with 'bytes', too. My opinion is just that 'octets' would be better. > --tom -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen