Louis: What a joke! Does anybody think that Barclay Rosser would be posting all of that highly detailed information about Hungary and China to the Marxism list if having this at his fingertips was not part of his job? Here, you want some highly detailed technical information from me?: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Perl, the variable that can be used to represent standard input is $_. In Sybase, the number of rows that are returned in an SQL statement can be limited through the use of the set rowcount command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Big fucking deal. Do you think that if I wasn't paid to administer Unix based client-server applications, I would know about this sort of stuff. No way.