>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> True. And then once you have the $path, you can call open -a later to Charles> launch it. Or just do: Charles> system q(/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to open application file id "CWIE"'); Maybe I don't quite understand AppleScript entirely yet, but isn't that the same as: system "osascript", "-e", 'tell application file id "CWIE" to open'; ? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!