According to Wm. L. Scheding: > > I understand why system(); won't work on the Macintosh. > > However, can I pipe commands to another perl script or program > which might support a psuedo command line interface? Unfortunately - you can not have more than one MacPerl program running at one time. Under OpenStep you will be able to do this, but then OS is really Unix. :-) Also, there isn't a password file on the Mac either. So unless you are creating your own PW file you won't have one to read. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch