I subbed to this list a few weeks ago and caught a few messages dealing with using Applescript and even FaceSpan to drive and control MacPerl scripts. I've written a bunch of MacPerl droplets that manipulate, move and sift through groups of DNA sequences. Now I would like to link them together and control them via FaceSpan and Applescript. Progress is slow for me as I am teaching myself Applescript from Goodman's book and at the same time trying to assimilate the FaceSpan documentation. If anybody out there is doing similar work and would like to establish some sort of dialog or just trade positive and negative experiences I would like to hear from you. regards, Chris Dagdigian Genetics Institute cdagdigian@genetics.com ps- I appreciate all of the MacPerl resources that many members of this list have put up on the web. They have helped me greatly.