Hi, This is the Tie::TextDir module. It is a TIEHASH interface which lets you tie a Perl hash to a directory of textfiles: use Tie::TextDir; tie (%hash, 'Tie::TextDir', '/some_directory', 'rw'); # Open in read/write mode $hash{'one'} = "some text"; # Creates file /some_directory/one # with contents "some text" untie %hash; tie (%hash, 'Tie::TextDir', '/etc'); # Defaults to read-only mode print $hash{'passwd'}; # Prints contents of /etc/passwd For more specific information, please see the documentation inside TextDir.pm, by doing "pod2txt TextDir.pm", or "perldoc Tie::TextDir" once you've installed the module. To install the module, do the usual: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install -Ken Williams