note PERLscienceman Although using wperl.exe is probably the most direct route; in the spirit of <i>"There Is More Than One Way To Do It"</i> I will point you to this node: <A HREF="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=271330">Win32::Start Perl/Tk Script Without Annoying DOS Window</A>, which utilizes the module [cpan://Win32::Process], which is in the core of the ActivePerl Windows distribution of Perl. 340088 340088