I have been following this thread with great interest. I am a newbie at MacPerl and my first assignment was to write a script to upload files. I was very distressed to see the file type and creator codes change. I could care less whether it is a BEdit, MPW, or Netscape file, but my users are going to be upset if it changes in the process of uploading to the master server. How do I retain the original information? When I read in the creator using GetFileInfo as suggested, it has already been changed to MPS. Maria Shugars ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch