In message <199704211627.MAA07263@jekyll.piermont.com> "Perry E. Metzger" writes: : Myself, whenever I run an identd anywhere, it claims to be Dan Bernstein. You mean like this: #!/usr/local/bin/perl ($a, $b) = split(/[,\n\r ]+/,<>); print "$a , $b : USERID : UNIX : Dan.Bernstein\r\n"; Warner