Thanks to all those that took the time to help solve such a lame newbie prob:-)
"Ken Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote >I'd bet a beer that you've got Mac line endings instead of Unix line endings - Sir, you have won yourself a beer, my profuse thanks and, perchance, bit of light relief to installing perl 5.6.1 :-) - name your brand......... On a closing note to the list in general, I would just like to say, line endings aside, I couldn't believe how easy it was to write this script. In the past when I had to do something like this through MacPerl, it would take me at least a couple of tries and a long hard think, to get a solution. In this case it took about 15 minutes to rough out into a working prototype, and about twenty to get it to where it is now, I almost couldn't believe it when it worked first time. Aided by the fact the docs can be applied verbatim to whatever problem I'm trying to solve, OSX+ perl = well impressed. Now if only I could get my third party USB devices to work with OSX, life'd be perfect :-)
