Dear Perl friends, Thanks for providing this forum to get up-to-date info on Mac Perl. As I'm a new subscriber here are the answers to your questions you asked. - How you learned about the existence of MacPerl A college here at work told me about it. I started using it because a project I'm developing needs an Apple scriptable app. to do text processing. - Whether you received your copy by ftp or by CD By the UF/NA ftp archive. - Whether you are using the MPW tool or the application I have it but I don't really use it. - what you are planning to use Perl for Base text processing for publications done in non-roman scripts. I hope these responses have been helpful. I have questions but I'm going to scour the archive first before I ask them. Thanks again. Sincerely yours, Dennis Drescher