One minor correction to Robin's message > Where it says "TYPE", put in the creator code of the app > you want to open the textfile with, which for SmpleText > is "ttext" ^^^^^ ...should be "ttxt". All creator and type codes are four characters. jay ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org