Brian asked: > Hi Ken, Which 4 of the 5 occurrences should be changed? (will save me > some time- thank you!) Brian, This demonstrates the point and gets rid of the fancy stuff. Apologies to all for the wasted bandwidth. Ken local fn DoDownload dim as str255 s edit$(_resultEF) = "" s = "cd ~/Desktop;" s += " curl -O" s += " http://4toc.com/fb4/FB_pkg_4_4_2.zip 2>&1" fn DoUnixCommand( s ) end fn