I was given a good url (http://www.ptf.com/macperl/depts/articles/IPCwMP.html) from Chris Nandor, but a couple of questions remain. What I want to do is send a Doscript command to frontier with its argument and then assign its return to a variable in perl. I am poking around, and will probably come up with a solution, but I figure I would ask since I am sure someone has already gone opn this journey. -M. Christian Hanson, Banta Integrated Media ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch