> I tried the supplied scripts, but didn't get the results you describe. > I get: > [martyn:0]$ PATH=$PATH:/tmp /tmp/test1.pl > In BLOCK1, $ENV{WANGO} = [undef] > In BLOCK2, $ENV{WANGO} = [FOTANGO] > In BLOCK3, $ENV{WANGO} = [undef] > > Please retry them in a separate session; I have to imagine that you have > "WANGO" set in your environment, or similar. As far as I know, I don't have an environment variable called "WANGO" in my environment. My guess is that this may be related to the Windows version I have. The machine that this failed on has NT 4.0 installed. Let me try it on my XP box and see if I get the same error. Steve Peters steve@fisharerojo.org