Use a recent version of ALPHA. The ALPHA-Perl mode is quite nice and has the option "Prompt For Args". If you activate perl-menu for text-mode windows, you can use simple scripts like #!perl -p tr /A-Z/a-z/; for filtering like STDIN/STDOUT in UNIX with the "use buffer as filter" feature . hope this helps Holger On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Francois-Regis wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is somebody know how I can give arguments on a "command line" UNIX like with > my Perl. > > FR Holger Dunkel | Bunsenstr. 13-15 | PGP-Key: finger:dunkel@up4u0c.gwdg.de IV. Physikalisches Institut | Phone: (Germany) 0551/39-7699 37073 Goettingen/Germany | native language: German E-Mail: dunkel@up4u0b.gwdg.de | http://www.physik4.gwdg.de/~dunkel