>After reading your clever idea above, I doubt that I know more than you about Linux.
>When you start banding about 'awk', 'grep', etc., it suggests that you are an odl Unix user!
>The only thing I know is what I read in the howto's and what I've learned by installing and playing. And with my memory I
forget most of that!

Well, I am not an old Unix user...have learned most in the last few years, and most of that just from second-hand Usenet postings. I personally avoid cryptic command line tools like awk as if they were the plague. *smile*

JoeK