Here, on 10.5.6(intel) [shell] crashes too.. But [popen] is working just fine... (what's the difference?) the [shell] crash happens simultaneously with the right outlet bang... Jack escreveu: > Hello Mark, > > I use [shell] every days on MacOSX.4 with PowerPC and Intel. No > problem here. > ++ > > Jack > -- http://www.padovani.googlepages.com