Just a heads up: The following have inconsistent lists of the special tie methods for file-handles. http://search.cpan.org/src/RGARCIA/perl-5.10.0/lib/Tie/Handle.pm http://search.cpan.org/src/RGARCIA/perl-5.10.0/lib/Tie/StdHandle.pm http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perltie.pod#Tying_FileHandles_ Specifically it looks like the new special methods are not documented in perltie but only in Tie::Handle. Cheers, yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"