Carl Johan Berglund writes: |What about a class? |use File::Name; There's already a File::Spec class that does this. It has the same problems that have been discussed here for embedding path conversion stuff in perl, but it may be useful in some cases. I find the easiest way to deal with the problem is what someone else suggested--set a variable at the start of the program that contains : under MacPerl and / under Unix or Windows perl, and use it instead of a separator in paths. Brian ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch