Martin Leese wrote:>> I have never used ogg123, and haven't used >> Perl for seven years or so.Which is why I had forgotten that Perl statements that are not comments need to end in a semi-colon. Try: system(`ogg123 /home/ti/OGG/HowLovely.ogg`); Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/