At 7:18 PM -0500 3/23/06, Lloyd Butler wrote: >Unfortunately a 'do shell script' will not compile in HC, even if you try and wrap it in a call to the Finder. I've gotten this to work: tell application "Finder" set t to «event sysoexec» "echo barf" end tell but it returns Unicode which HyperCard can't deal with. I'm sure I had a way of converting utf8 to MacRoman, but I can't find it now. Perhaps someone else can help. Jon