I'm sorry its too hard to read your email, turn off HTML email in Thunderbird by going to account settings > then select your mailbox then "uncheck" compose HTML email. As for using cut, that might work I had not really thought about that. I'll play around with it and let ya'll know. I am familiar with Perl, and I know that it won't work in my situation. sed and awk will still be around for years to come, and they are still very practical. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss