John Horne <john.horne <at> plymouth.ac.uk> writes: > Thanks for the reply, but sorry this isn't going to work. As said, this > must work under Unix, and Solaris, for example, uses a standard Bourne > shell, not bash. Constructs such as 'symval=$(' won't work. (I can't > change shell either before anyone asks ) No backticks either??? Kevin Kofler