Howie wrote: >I am trying to establish the tty of the user to create a unique filename so >the processing table says: > >user inp="tty" >tt=inp >show "@" & tt > According to Bob S. the following must be true.. > The program passed to user has to be an unquoted literal, as: > > Then: USER prog = /tmp/shell_script Thus your quotes are your culprit. -- Walter