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[cont…] hilite.rexx is another filter. It's sort of like a search or grep, but instead of just showing you the line on its own, will pass through everything sent to it, but will hilite the argument strings it finds in colour 3 (red on my machine). It allows looking for something in context. Some, like gif2iff.rexx, simplify more complex comand lines. That one does a number of things with two pbmplus programs and an intermediate file. 'penicillinfo.rexx' was a script I used under 1.3 and previous, to get rid of those pesky .info files. It ran under cron every night. Some scripts simple 'run' a program with the command line unchanged, because I hate it hen I forget to run, and lose the use of the CLI. remind.rexx is used every weekday morning at 0750, using cron, to pop a window up on my screen, beep me, and remind me that it's time to go to work. There are more, of course, and many of them I no longer use. One day I'll get down to cleaning up the directory, and will probably find that I will keep no more than about 100-150 of them, some perhaps just for reference on technique. Probably more than you wanted to know, but perhaps you'll get the idea that I am a diehard Arexx fan, and that I make very good use of it. As far as I am concerned, ARexx and WShell are probably the single most valuable programs I have, bar none. Again, please feel free to use any of this (but be nice :-). -larry