Dear all, Thanks Sridhar and Serafim for your responses and help. However, I was only partly able to solve my problems. using ./myscript.ksh still gave the message : command not found however using sh myscript.ksh worked fine. using: perl myperlscript.pl enabled me to run the perl script, which I would not need as I have included !#/usr/bin/perl as first line in my script (which perl gave /usr/bin/perl). I have also noticed that vi does not work (also: command not found) I have run printenv PATH and the result was /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin export PATH=.:$PATH also resulted in an error message (command not found) Could anyone comment please? Cheers, Norman
