Ahhh yes - you work for the same company that Doc, Jochen and I work for ... Know exactly what you mean my friend ... It's a sad sight when Shawn sneaks quietly back into the house, crawls down the basement stairs (on his belly), and silently tippy-taps on keyboard, checking-in on kixtart.org ...

I'll see what I can home-brew later on ... of course ... it would still involve piping stuff out to a temporary file ... but it would be nice to have it packaged in a single UDF - no ? In fact, if memory serves, there's a tempfile() UDF over at scriptlogic that might fit in quite nicely here ...

l8r

-Shawn