>Thanks to you and all who have replied. What I see I need now is a suggestion for the best text on learning the launguage. My backgound is some VB, but otherwise I work in Perl/MySQL on *nix platforms.

I agree with Sergey and Steve about reading the books from Hentzenwerke. And after you're done with all of those, there's a book on the Report Writer due out this spring.

Cathy