I wish to change the timeout on appleevents I am sending. here is the snippet of code. I need to lengthen the timeout. $evt = AEBuildAppleEvent ('misc', 'dosc', typeApplSignature , 'LAND', 0,0, "TEXT: "$scriptorun"") || die $^E; $rep = AESend ($evt, kAEWaitReply) || die $^E; -M. Christian Hanson, Banta Integrated Media ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch