>Works fine on Unix, but not on Macs running MacOS. The reason is that this >copies the data fork (to standard output no less, which isn't terribly >useful without a redirect), but not the resource fork. Yep, Paul's right. I forgot about the resource fork. Brian ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch