ok. call me stupid or just new to the Mac version of perl, but what's the Mac version of "exec"? the command is in the MacPerl Perl commands page, and gives a humorous message if I try to use it, but no indication of what I should do. thanks in advance for any answers best andrew mckenzie ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch