>#!/bin/perl >sleep 60; > >puts the Mac entirely to sleep; none of the menus or buttons respond >until the sleep period is up. The mouse is still tracked, however. There is a shareware utility called "Monitor" which will plot a graph of things like memory and CPU usage. I find it useful in situations like this... "MacPerl is still using 80% of the CPU!" or whatever. It's available at standard FTP sites. E-mail me if you can't find it and I'll send it to you. -- matt.