Hello -- I've just registered dbdbd (David Black's DataBase Definer), version 0.0.1, at the RAA. dbdbd is a tool for defining simple plain-text database formats. It is extremely non-killer, but oddly enough sometimes quite useful. (At least, the Perl version that I decided to rewrite in Ruby has been :-) David -- David Alan Black home: dblack / candle.superlink.net work: blackdav / shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav