Oops! Two points I forgot to mention... (1) Once you've made the mistake and have an invisible file in the "Temporary Items" folder, you're sort of 'hosed'. You can't get at the file to delete it (you have to reboot - nice user friendly thing, that?) Repeated attempts to get MacPerl to switch to Alpha with your MacPerl generated changes will always pull up your invisible version... bummer. The only thing you can do is reboot to delete the invisible file or rename your original to something new and work with that... (2) I always start out with Alpha and only edit with Alpha. I can run my scripts from within Alpha, so there's no need to ever edit in the MacPerl editor. jay ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch