I am happy to see this as I have a friend who is always talking about MING on PHP. I never realized that there was a MING implementation in Perl although I should have known there would be.

Your Perl is very clean and easy to look at. A quick scan suggest there might be ways to compact it some, but for an example it is nice. I like it.

Thanks for showing it could be done. Now off to experiment on my mini vacation week.

Akira Yamashita