Is there a way to send MacPerl an argument from AppleScript and vice versa, i.e.: property test : 1 tell application "MacPerl" Do Script "$x = 1 + test" end tell return $x Thanks, #================================================================ perl -e 'srand();if(rand>.5){$i=0;foreach(@ARGV){@$i=split(//);$z [$i]=0;foreach$l(@$i){$s[$i][$z[$i]]=$l;$z[$i]++;}$i++;}foreach$m (@s){foreach$g(@{$m}){print$g}print" ";$m++}}else{print(join(" ", @ARGV))}print"\n"' McClellan Clan Motto: Think On Chris Nandor pudge@pcix.com PGP Key 0xB76E72AD http://pudge.petersons.com/