folks ,this man knows his !flying Circus!
Jochen,
p.s.: finished the 'strip ip out of ping'-batch task [without need to use grep]
and therefore can now fully concentrate on 'Handling dates' 
.... ok i have a 'real' job
to do , incidentally 
Yours etc.
John Cleese
[This message has been edited by jpols (edited 21 June 2000).]
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