I don't know enough about the communication between BBEdit and MacPerl to explain why this happens... but you can get it to work from BBEdit if you hold down the option key when you click run and then check the box "Bring MacPerl to front" HTH adam > > i get two different result depending on if i run the following script from > MacPerl or BBEdit 5.1. Any solution to this? when this is ran from MacPerl, > the scipt waits for input, from BBEdit the scripts does not wait for input > > #!perl > > print('Enter your name : '); > $input = <STDIN>; > chomp($input); > print ("iH $input"); > > # output running from BBEdit 5.1 > # --> Enter your name : iH > > # output running from Macperl > # --> Enter your name : hcir > # iH hcir > > -- hcir > mailto:g3pb@alaska.net > > > > # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? > # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org