note barrd Hi [mcogan1966],<br> How I normally get around this is either create a module <code>.pm</code> which can be included in any dir in <code>@INC</code> and called with <code>use Foo::Bar;</code>. Or a library <code>.pl</code> called with <code>require /path/to/baz.pl;</code>. <p> You would then make filenames and paths variables which are read in from the file making it portable throughout many systems without having to touch the script itself. 302992 303002