On Apr 28, Alistair.McGlinchy@marks-and-spencer.com said: >A non-OS depent solution: >open I,$0;print<I> >Or did I miss something here? Yeah. You're not allowed to access the system. And you can shorten that: open+0;print<0> -- MIDN 4/C PINYAN, NROTCURPI, US Naval Reserve japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ http://pinyaj.stu.rpi.edu/ PerlMonth - An Online Perl Magazine http://www.perlmonth.com/ The Perl Archive - Articles, Forums, etc. http://www.perlarchive.com/ ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe