> here is a Perl wrapper for you to use On DOS-based machines, a BAT file can do the same and probably with less overhead. Launching an instance of Perl needs a couple megs of RAM; an instance of COMMAND (or CMD) to process a BAT file is under 64K. I doubt there is a practical difference unless you run a P-133 with 32Megs, as I was doing until this week. -PRR