Quoting andy at theasis.com (andy at theasis.com): > On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Jason DeStefano wrote: > > > heh. no, i mean C. it does a LOT more than perl--and a lot faster too. :) > > Remember "fast" is not just what the computer does after the human does > all the work. I don't think you can write, compile and execute the C code > faster than I can spit this onto the command line: > > perl -e '$bob = 1 << 4 and print $bob, "\n";' > kiss is what I was going for. I just needed that to twiddle a few kernel params. -- Joseph A. Heil, Jr. Oracle DBA heilja at dbsource.com http://www.dbsource.com voice: 952-445-8066 fax: 952-445-5196 Key fingerprint = 95 FC 3A F4 8A 10 05 85 3F 53 01 86 AD DB DB 51