Hi All, I read for about four days this list and felt totally lost. But I tryed again to open the Mac perl file I got send in an e mail from my brother. I have programmed in FORTRAN in the sevenites on holerith cards and then in the eighties I programmed a VIC 20. I have Code Warrior lite@ whihc seems to come on as the editor when I open the Perl file. But I can't open the documents or help or any of the text stuff within the file. I have Abode reader 2.0 but it won't read anything. Sorry if this gets you Monday morning and your in a bad mood and just got to work. I am also reading a book about UNIX for FORTRAN programmers learning C at a snails pace and have a copy of MINDY a DYLAN compiler, I think. AHA Peter Timusk email at timusk@magi.com Thanks, Merci, Spacibo, and Kiitos Paljon. "We can be heros, just for one day." David Bowie Visit my home page....http://infoweb.magi.com/~timusk/