At 12.18 -0500 1999.01.08, Dick Shead wrote: >A quick question. In unix I am using the line: system ("cat filename"); >Is there a comparable command that will accomplish this in macperl? What do you want to do with the data? Just display it in the window? open(FILE, "< $file") or die $!; print while <FILE>; -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch