Hi Maurice!   
      
   > I more or less took your advice about man pages except decided to    
   > let the perldoc site do all the dirty work for me   
      
      I often find myself using that site even though I have the main Perl   
   documentation installed locally...   
         
      
   > and found this within   
   > http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/localtime.html;   
   > "$mon the month in the range 0..11, with 0 indicating January and 11   
   > indicating December. This makes it easy to get a month name from a list"   
      
       As you mentioned, that makes sense.   
      
      
   > That makes perfect sense but doesn't really explain the 16 bit binary   
   > month in FTN pkt headers or does it?   
      
      Wasn't 16 bits the 'standard' size for an integer at the time?  (And still   
   so, for at least some systems.)   
      
      
   >  Do any of your modules use the output from an incoming packet   
   >  in that manner?   
      
      In which "manner"?     
      
      
   >  Offhand I cannot really see it being of any real consequence but   
   > then again I haven't seen the value of ANY of the data within a   
   > pkt header so I might be extremely prejudiced.   
      
        The packet header is basically for information above the level of   
   they message itself, I've always thought...   
      
      
   > At the very least I now know why $mon is 0..11 in localtime and it has   
   > nothing to do with direct display of it's value and more to do with zero   
   > based lists, arrays, etc.   
      
      That's what I've thought, too...   
      
      
      
      
   Jame   
      
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