Les

Thanks very much for a quick reply. As this is my first bash at a kixtart script, I hope you'll bear with me on this one....

I thought that I had to open a file to use the WriteLine function to add a line in the file.

Would you mind giving me an example line of what I need?

from a kixtart novice - thanks in anticipation

by the way - I take your point re the old version - I've now d/l the latest version.