ok, i have another question if you guys would be so kind to help me out... When i have MacPerl get a text document from the web for instance and save it, it is in unix format with unix CRs (\r) which the mac doesn't use. how do i convert the document to mac format (\n). i tried: while(<FILE>) { $_ = s/\r/\n/g; } but it doesn't work. please help. ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org