In message <199703151319.AAA25097@zen.quick.com.au> "Simon J. Gerraty" writes: : 0 , 0 : ERROR : UNKNOWN-ERROR I've found that #!/usr/local/bin/perl ($a, $b) = split(/[,\n\r ]+/,<>); print "$a , $b : OTHER : Warm-Fuzzy\r\n"; works better than the above. And it is 100% protocol compliant. :-) Warner