Since I now have bash, I thought I would try modifying some of my perl batch files to work as "scripts". In the top of my file I have #!/usr/local/bin/perl, and it seems that bash just skips write over it. Any ideas? Thanks, Gregory Deatz - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".