According to Darren/Torin/Who Ever...: > Threading isn't available in the Perl 5.005.x {x: x <= 50}. Um, I think it is. Quoting from 5.005_02's Configure: Perl can be built to take advantage of threads, on some systems. To do so, Configure must be run with -Dusethreads. (See README.threads for details.) -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com> "When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy."