In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] u (Micah James Cooper) writes: > How do you open files in another directory using perl on the VAX? > ie: It didn't seem to like open(FILE, "[hon.muhonors.www]prepend.txt") > much, or is this correct and something else was wrong? This should work just fine. Try something like: open(FILE, "[hon.muhonors.www]prepend.txt") || die "Error opening file: $!"; This will print the actual error message (it's stored in $!) for the error you're getting. This may help determine the problem. Perl on VMS should also accept something like this: open(FILE, "/sys_users/hon/muhonors/www/prepend.txt"); -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask]