At 10:38 PM 1/3/2003 +0100, you wrote:

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$Problems = system ( "$cmd" ) ; and see if it changes things.

It did and thank you. Could this (or anything like this) go into distribution?

ok, i added this $Problems = ... Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------