Hello! I know next to nothing about Perl, so please forgive me if I ask any stupid questions. I have this chat script written in Perl that I'd like to set up just for a few friends to use. It has a list of the current chatters that you can check so you know who else is in the room with you. Unfortunately, the script uses Javascript to write to the DB file, and every time you refresh the chat an annoying pop-up box comes up. When the chat loads it writes your name to the file, and deletes it when you exit. I'd really like to get rid of this. Surely there is a way to get rid of the Javascript. There are two "sub" sections (?) I'd like combined, but I don't have any idea how to do this. I've attached them to this message in a text file. I'd like it to add the chatter's name to the file and keep it there, unless the chat isn't refreshed for several minutes. So if someone is chatting their name is in the list, but if the leave for a while it gets deleted. If they come back, it gets added again. (Does any of this make sense?) I appreciate any help I can get. Thanks, Becca -- _______________________________________________ FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Talk More, Pay Less with Net2Phone Direct(R), up to 1500 minutes free! http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?143 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]