MMM strange needs... I'm thinking that perhaps allowing him to run idle and exporting X display to the Mac could be an option?
I used to do perl on linux until I found Python, I find it very easy to run quick scripts and system stuff without having to learn BASH, sed, awk, etc separately, taht way I can do regexp, listings, recursion on directories, batch jobs, etc. Hugo _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor