CompuServe Thread

I've noticed that recently there's been some traffic on the board about using the Director. I'm playing around, trying to port a relatively slow application from AmigaVision to the Director – and having pretty good success on what I thought would be the difficult sections, However, I've run into a problem that seems so basic that I just can't figure it out. I'd appreciate any help from anybody. Here's the problem, I'm trying to read a message from another ARexx program (which I have done) and act upon it depending on what it is (there's the rub). Here's what I have (line numbers added for easy reference): 0. New 1,320,200,2 1. DIM msg[100] 2. move 10,10 3. TEXT "Start" 4. /loop: 5. REXX "TEST",result 6. if result = 0 then goto loop 7. REXX "RCV",msg 8. REXX "REPLY",0 9. if msg$ = "Hello" then TEXT "Hello" 10. clear 11. goto loop The problem comes every time I run it I get an "Invalid Expression" error and it flags line 9, the 'IF…THEN' statement. I've tried every combination I can thing of with quotes, as well as "msg" with and without a '$' at the end to denote the string, but it keeps choking. I can probably figure a work-around, but I shouldn't have to… what am I doing wrong? Thanks again… Joe