> So I guess all the things one would want to do will still be > available, I'm just worried that they'll require lots of OO crap > to do. Yea, truly. I/O used to be so simple, and now we can't have a function telling the length in bytes of a scalar (so that we can syswrite() it into a socket, say), now we must start worrying about character encoding discipines, and in general, as you so succinctly put it, OO crap. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen