In Regards to your letter <9603151927.AA04544@std.saic.com>: > how can i have a Mac-Perl script launch and run another Mac-Perl script > on a remote machine (over AppleTalk)? i assume i'd have to use > AppleScript as the API. i've glanced at the GUSI, but it appears to > require MPW, which i don't have. thanks in advance. Peter Lewis has a daemon that allows you to open a TCP socket to another Macintosh and send it AppleScript commands to be executed. Seems the simplest approach. The daemon is known as "Script Daemon". Is at sumex and others. tim. time@ice.com (UUCP: heifetz!tbomb!time) USENET - a slow moving self parody... ph