> 4 drag & drop file "19980304" on to droplet icon > of your script > >As you can know above, that you type "genera.... 19980304" on Unix >environment is equal to that you drag&drop onto droplet. Dragging and dropping files causes the full pathnames to be put into @ARGV, which isn't quite the same. You'd have to strip off the path leading to the basename. -- Paul DuBois paul@snake.net Home Page: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois Software: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch