Thanks so much. If I can't find a setting for ActiveState that would allow path separators to be interpreted in the backtick command, I'll get one of these workarounds going.

The problem is that I have several hundred scripts that need to be fixed in this manner, (and while I'm sure I could do the whole lot with a little perl script), I know these all ran on ActiveState before, and so I'd rather go that route, if possible. So, I'd still like to hear if anyone knows how to get ActiveState to behave this way...