At 22.52 1998.04.01, Ben Ko wrote: >$script = AECreateDesc "TEXT", $ARGV[0] || <<'END_SCRIPT'; >clock.set($time) >END_SCRIPT Doing <<'END_SCRIPT' is like putting the text there in single quotes, so $time is not interpolated before being sent to Frontier. Use either <<"END_SCRIPT" or <<END_SCRIPT, and it should work. -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey=('B76E72AD',[1024,'0824 090B CE73 CA10 1FF7 7F13 8180 B6B6']) #== New Book: MacPerl: Power and Ease ==# #== Publishing Date: Early 1998. http://www.ptf.com/macperl/ ==# ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch