While browsing this year's Obfuscated Perl contest I found an entry that might be of interest to other MacPerl programmers: #!/bin/perl -w012l15pi.bak Save that one line as a droplet. It will take a text file and change the newlines from Mac format to Unix format. #!/bin/perl -w015l12pi.bak will do the opposite operation, Unix format to Mac format. I'm afraid I've forgotten the originator's name, but this sure works nice.