Ah, ... you are reading now. Could you confirm or deny, that the /usr/lib/perl5 no longer contains *.pm files ? There seems to be some confusion, but on investigation at perl.org, it looks like this is really the case. Then people will not wait for a bug fix which won't come because its not a bug. btw. Looks like some really cool stuff in the new perl. John John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre