Tim, I was not satisfied with the solution m1g provided by ... It took some minutes to enhance m1g to m1g.ksh so that it is able to handle path names. Tested on Solaris and without any warranties. Should work on Windows too. Regards, Andreas m1g.ksh #!/bin/ksh #set -x # Shell script to convert SL-GMS ".m1" files into equivalent ".g" files. # # Usage: # m1g /yourpathname/filename.m1 => converts filename.m1 to filename.g # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/gms/bin case $# in 0) echo; echo "USAGE: $0 file.m1 ..."; echo; exit 1 ;; esac errorexit="" for infile do case $infile in *.m1) ;; *) echo "****ERROR: $infile does not have a .m1 suffix." errorexit=y; continue ;; esac if [ ! -f $infile ] then echo "****ERROR: $infile does not exist."; errorexit=y; continue fi echo ... $infile file=`basename $infile` PATH_INFILE=`dirname $1` if [ ! -f "$file" ] then cp $infile . DODELETE=1 else echo "sorry but the file $file already exists in " pwd DODELETE=0 fi file=`basename $infile .m1` # Cannot put tabs in here gml -l -tws -nws -w -y 1> /dev/null 2> /tmp/ttgml$$ << END_OF_SAVE model get ${file} ${file} gsave quit END_OF_SAVE if [ -s /tmp/ttgml$$ ] then echo; echo "****ERROR message from gml" cat /tmp/ttgml$$; errorexit=y fi done \rm -f /tmp/ttgml$$ if [ "$DODELETE" -eq "1" ] then \rm -f ${file}.m1 mv ${file}.g $PATH_INFILE else echo "nothing done" fi if [ "$errorexit" ] then exit 1 else exit 0 fi _______________________________________________________________________ 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