Dear P5P, It was nice to see some of you in Amsterdam, even if we didn't get a chance to meet personally - this was my first Perl event, so hopefully next time :-) Attached are two simple patches, since they're only one line each I didn't submit them via perlbug, but can do that if desired. First is a patch for Tie::StdHandle::BINMODE not handling the "LAYER" argument, second is a nitpick of the documentation of "use Module 12.34;", which adds the implicit Module->import() call to the "equivalent" code. Thanks, Regards, -- Hauke DThread Next