Sorry to all. It's a carelees error on my part. The "find" command from File::Find also returns the folder it's visiting. That is why the open file line in my code is not successful. Thanks Tim. I could kick myself for posting such an mindless error. Xah, xah@best.com, http://www.best.com/~xah/ ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch