SF> If you tell someone that he needs paperware as a reference for a SF> technology or as a way to learn it, then it means that someone did not SF> give enough time to make sure it is adequately documented as is. Please tell your friend to go to www.perlmonks.org : there's a lot of tutorials there, also he will be able to learn by examples, and there's a lot of supportive people. This discussion becomes offtopic, and I really think there should be a very link to perlmonks site at the very enterance of p5p, because it's quite often novices ask simple questions here, and they should go to PM site. -- Best regards, Vadim