www.perlmonks.org is awesome. Of course, this puts me on a direct path into the "black hole" of web programming, but at least I can get started with a debugger! I'm finally able to use a perl debugger, thanks to your tip.

I have "Programming the Perl DBI" and will continue to try and absorb the details it offers. It's been over my head for 1-1/2 years now, but I'm gaining on it. I have a "Perl and CGI for the WWW", (Elizabeth Castro), and a perl monk pointed me toward Ovid's tutorials. What's unfortunate is that even the published scripts in documentation have their problems with <perl -d> and <use strict;>

SO... to sum this up... Thanx Wil! These were very good tips. If there were just more hours in a day... but then that is probably what DBM SQL is for. The big question is how much do I want to learn to do myself vs outsource?

Andrew Lietzow
The ACL Group, Inc.