On 3/26/04 3:56 PM, "Eugene Lee" <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net> wrote: > > Weird. Just a guess, but try removing *all* leading whitespace from > the entire shell script. This will kill the nice formatting for the > AppleScript code, but let's make it work before we make it pretty. Same thing. The -v option doesn't return this error, and it's the only one using a tell to an app other than the Finder. Kirk My latest book: How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther http://www.mcelhearn.com/htde.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kirk at mcelhearn.com | http://www.mcelhearn.com . . . . . . . . Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France . .