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>>> The vMac emulator is a very simple Mac Plus emulator which does not share disks directly I'm still using classic for HyperCard, which means no intel. I've heard there are newer, better MacOS emulators that run on the newer processors but I haven't looked for or tried them. It may be worth looking for something more fexible. In the meantime... > if line 1 of it is "hscript" then delecte line 1 of it > do it as Applescript (or, "open URL it", etc) In Hypercard the value of "it" changes frequently (like the AppleScript result variable) so I'd try the following instead: on mouseUp put the clipboard into myVar if line 1 of myVar is "hScript" then delete line 1 of myVar do myVar as appleScript end if end mouseUp > I just need an Applescript idle script that does basically the same thing with the clipboard every few seconds. As Mark suggested, place the following script in a stay-open applet. It will check the clipboard every 5 seconds. my CheckClipBoard() on CheckClipBoard() set myVar to the clipboard set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return if text item 1 of myVar is "hscript" then set myVar to text items 2 thru -1 of myVar as text end if set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims run script myVar end CheckClipBoard on idle my CheckClipBoard() return 5 end idle This is what I was using in the clipboard to test this: hScript display dialog "Worked" HTH, ES