MacUser recently posted many of their past shareware tools at their Internet site. One of these is an introduction to Applescript by Danny Goodman - free for downloading. The url for the MacUser software selections is http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/software/macbrows.html Look for Script-a-File. This tool includes extensions to Applescript, the "GTQ OSAXen" by Greg Quinn. I am not experienced in this aspect of Macs yet, so perhaps one of the veterans can try and comment on this as a complement to a system based on MacPERL. Nils Dahl