Hi Nail is an improved BSD mail. It seems the author collected fixes from various sources (plus of corse the stuff to support MIME he did). Just thought maybe somebody want's to look into what of nail could be used in mailx, or wheter it would even make sense to use nail as the default /usr/bin/mail. ciao, 2ri -- ($a_or_b ? $a : $b) = $c; . This is not necessarily guaranteed to contribute to the readability of your program. -- perlop(1p)