Chris, Matthias, et al Thought I was going along fine....until I tried to actually do something, ha! I tried to create an AE to open a specific doc: $file = "path_to_mydb"; $evt = AEBuildAppleEvent('aevt', 'odoc', typeAppleSignature, 'FMP3', 0,0, "'----':$file") || die $^E; I got the event ID from running aete.converter and from the AE db that comes with FMP3. But I get "died. system error occured. No error text available." Anyone care to give me a kick? -Darryl Caldwell darrylc@eznet.com ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch