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i dont think this is actually going to work on a win2k3

machine, without

...

some external aid (!)

Well, you'd think someone would get around to inventing some way for email to carry a little one line tag telling you the subject of the email! It would avoid these awkward situations! Yar!

.. Can you do the same thing in perl on Windows? I know active state has been putting out some perl stuff for windows for a while....

~Will

I think he could also use Cygwin. Pretty straightforward. All the commands are there : bash, rsync, touch, echo, rm, ...

Sydney.