> does that mean you can do recursive updates to word docs? Nope. Perl can't help you. there. You need OpenOffice or "find / -name '*.do[ct]' -exec rm -f \{} \;" for that. Mike808/ --------------------------------------------- http://www.valuenet.net - To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@silug.org with "unsubscribe silug-discuss" in the body.