On Dec 8, 2006, at 1:31 PM, runrev260805 at m-r-d.de wrote: > answer hostnametoaddress(the hostName) This works on my OS X 10.4.8. I have a vague notion of this not working, perhaps on some OS or in older versions of Revolution or in my error. If this works across platforms, then this is better than what I suggested. Dar