Anyone who can't laugh at himself is not taking life seriously enough. Larry Wall str->str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */s = (unsigned char*)(str->str_ptr); /* deeper magic */ Larry Wall in util.c from the perl source code Larry Wall Things that are different should look different. http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html Larry Wall True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want. http://www.thomashartmann.de/ Larry Wall