note Cody Pendant You're right! I see what's gone wrong now, and I feel appropriately stupid. It wasn't actually "scriptname args" that I was running, it was "scriptalias args" where scriptalias is a doskey alias to the script, which didn't pass on all the args. Mea Culpa. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-87399"> <HR> <BR> <blockquote> Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more<br> kids today don't know what line-noise IS ... </blockquote> </div></div> 747578 747612