Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote: > Shh. Don't say that too loudly around Tom Christiansen. He'll write a > shell in perl just because bash has that damnable GNU license on it. Er.. it's already trivial: perl -de0 Or, if you prefer to not have to explicitly use the "system" command every time you run an external program, use CPAN to install the Shell module... -- Raul