There's also an alternate alternate procedure that would involve not running sys$system:startup.com or whatever, and just trying to run "authorize," installing the proper images until it stops complaining about not having them ;) Of course, that's the long way around. The point is that if you've gotten as far as actually running that script, you can pretty much do whatever you like. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '