Guys, I am looking for a script that will run d_edit on for dm. Tried the following and I get permission denied errors and then told that the display is not a file. Any help will be greatly appreciated and if someone knows if it is in the achieves please let me know. for x in $* do if [-f $x] then /usr/fox/wp/bin/tools/d_edit -dump $x textedit $x.dmp /usr/fox/wp/bin/tools/d_edit -upload $x rm $x.dmp else echo $x is Not a file!!!! fi done I tried all of the chmod commands that I could find and an ls -l on the file returns -rwxrwxrw- Thanks for the help! T.L. Brazell Senior Process Control Analyst Cell 806-898-4340 Office 806-275-5274 Home 806-935-7281 tlbrazell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ******************************************************* Remember that each of us can choose to make a difference! ******************************************************* _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave