You're writing a shell script in /bin/sh, but you start to write a C loop... Damn these drugs. ----- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <kris at nospam.catonic.net> | IM: KrisBSD | HSV, AL. ------------------------------------------------------- "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."