--- Mike Egglestone <megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca> wrote: > thanks for all the inputs !!! Just condensing all the answers given (more for myself) >I'm really new to Perl and I'm guessing that >I can't run shell commands within a perl script... Check out system() and exec()... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/