note sunadmn In my experiance with running sytem calls on SUN I have always built my command like this:<br><br> <code> my $cpcmd = '/bin/cp'; system($cpcmd $curfile $newfile); </code> But there is a better way of doing this and that would be using [cpan://File::Copy] take a look at that. <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-233158"> <B>SUNADMN</B><br> <B><I>USE PERL</I></B> </div></div> 486200 486200