Very interesting. Joseph DiVerdi's script will not run from BBEdit, but it runs perfectly from MacPerl. What is the problem here? Something to do with user input? I guess BBEdit can't handle any kind of user input, even "cmd-.". Regards, Vic At 8:36 PM -0700 11/16/00, Joseph A. DiVerdi wrote: >The subroutine named "END" will be executed when a MacPerl program >is stopped using "cmd-.". Take a look at the following program >snippet: > >#! perl -w > >print "starting up...\n"; >while (1) { } >exit; > >sub END { print "entered END!\n" } > >Best regards, >Joseph >-- >Joseph A. DiVerdi, Ph.D., M.B.A. >http://www.XTRsystems.com 970.221.3982 (voice) >%PGPKeyID=('D50A9E33') 970.224.3723 (fax) -- *---* mailto:norton@tweney.com | You can't fool me. There ain't no sanity clause! | - Chico Marx, A Night at the Opera *---* http://www.tweney.com/norton/ # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org