>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. Yes, I know it. Desired script that has lines concerning to relative- path cannot work, I agree. If the script only use @ARGV such as while (<>) { .... } , and if it print any output to STDOUT, it may work. ------------------------------------------------- Mamoru Yamanishi <yama@biotech.okayama-u.ac.jp> +81-86-251-8196(voice), +81-86-251-8264(GIII fax) Biotech. Dept., Okayama Univ. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch