Thanks for the idea's, I will keep on researchin. Unfortunately the 4 books i have and the 5 websites i researched don't seem to cover my need for a generic perl statement in the sub routines to identify where my graphics are after it parses and moves the document to the cgi-bin folder. Except for the print "<BASE HREF=\ Believe me, i wish they did. ken towry austin, tx ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org