>OK, another opportunity to show off the Mac toolbox features: > >#!perl ># ># Print name of the Machine as defined in Sharing Setup ># >use Mac::Resources; >use Mac::Types; >use Mac::Memory; > >$res = CurResFile(); >UseResFile(0); >$name = Get1Resource('STR ', -16413); >print MacUnpack('STR ', $name->get), "\n"; >UseResFile($res); Anyway to avoid AppleScript is a "good thing!" #================================================================ perl -e 'srand();if(rand>.5){$i=0;foreach(@ARGV){@$i=split(//);$z [$i]=0;foreach(@$i){$s[$i][$z[$i]]=$_;$z[$i]++;}$i++;}foreach(@s) {foreach(@$_) {print}print" ";$_++}}else{print(join(" ", @ARGV))} print"\n"' McClellan Clan Motto: Think On Chris Nandor pudge@pcix.com PGP Key 0xB76E72AD http://pudge.petersons.com/