At 11:54 AM -0600 11/14/97, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote: >So with the changes I discussed above (and one further change: I left out the >SetPort call in the update routine, as the port is guaranteed to be set >already), Michael's code looks like this: ... Interesting... When I run Matthias' version, cancel out using either CMD-period or closing the window and then try to run it a second time, I get a new window that says: Out of memory Out of memory Out of memory Out of memory If I try to run it a third time, MacPerl crashes with an Error 12. I am running the CMF68K version of MacPerl 5.1.5r4 /without/ the patches. Could that be the problem? When I try to run the Michael Ziege <ziege@ito.umnw.ethz.ch> version of this script, I can run it as many times as I want and it doesn't fail. My environment: Mac Quadra 800, System 8, 32Meg RAM ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch