The header says it. Has anyone ever done a yacc/lex/C PD program to convert (Bourne) shell scripts to C? Seems like a natural progression.... thanks - Scotty ------ AIDS INFORMATION EXCHANGE BBS (214) 247-2367/247-5609 "Education is the best weapon" {ames,rutgers,texsun,smu}!attctc!ozdaltx!sysop