At 8:05 12/16/96, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote: >How do you simulate multi-command-line arguments with MacPerl; e.g., >myperlpgm.pl myfirstarg mysecondarg ..., where myfirstarg is a file and >mysecondarg is a text parameter? You can preface the script with a line like this: #!perl @ARGV = ('myfirstarg','mysecondarg'); #================================================================ 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@pobox.com PGP Key 0xB76E72AD http://pudge.net/