stecal,

Thanks for the reply. I wasn't clear when I mentioned it previously, but while in ggsci, I was using the correct syntax. You are also supposed to be able to pass ggsci an obey command pointing to a file though using /obey filename following ggsci, which does not work for me.

This is the problem, the only thing the system recognizes is ggsci, after that, it stops reading the command. Example: I could type in any of the following and it takes me into a ggsci prompt without doing anything further:

$sys.cmd 1>ggsci hello world
$sys.cmd 1>ggsci/thisdoesntchangeathing
$sys.cmd 1>ggsci /in alphafile.txt
$sys.cmd 1>ggsci /out betafile.txt

Thanks