Hi, Well here is why I've been asking all these questions in here. Comments welcome. Thank you for all your help. Download or read docs at: gopher://quux.org/1/devel/missingh http://quux.org/devel/missingh Here are excerpts from the README file: ------------------------- Major Features ------------------------- * Powerful Logging Framework for Haskell This framework provides a system of hierarchical loggers and modular handlers permitting fine-grained logging with a great deal of control and yet a simple and fast interface. It's based on log4j for Java and logging for Python. Also included is a native-Haskell Syslog client. * IO utilities make it easier to work with line-based text files and binary files * List utilities including association list tools, list splitting, truncation, and delimiter joining * String utilities including removal of leading or trailing whitespace, joining, splitting, and truncation The entire library has no prerequisites save the Haskell standard library and is designed to install without complexity on a variety of systems. It could also easily be embedded within your own source trees so that users need not have it installed beforehand.