Sorry for leaving a couple of nonsense lines in the script in my earlier post (I don't normally write apple scripts this nonsensical). While writing the bug report the real cause of the missing colon (existance of a folder with this path) became obvious, whereas my initial suspicion was in a completely different direction. So I re-wrote my e-mail, but only partially. In nucem it should read: -------start apple script-------- property script1 : "print \"@ARGV\\n\"" property containerFolder : {path to system folder as text} on perlDownload(perlScript, opts) tell application "MacPerl" activate log {perlScript as Text} & opts Do Script ({perlScript as Text} & opts) end tell end perlDownload perlDownload(script1, containerFolder) -------start apple script-------- Sorry for wasting bandwidth. Peter Hartmann Visiting Scholar Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan e-mail: hartmann@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp (preferred) phv00542@askic.kic.ritsumei.ac.jp ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch