to michael and matthias michael thanks that worked. now I can use the debugger. matthias the problem was I couldn't get a path to the library. I followed Michael's suggestion below and it worked. don't know if it represents any sort of bug or not. maybe it's related to changing from ver. 5.05 to .06? janis wrote (orginally) >> can't seem to get preferences to select anything. is there some trick >> to it? I tried print @INC[0] and just got : >> >> I tried reinstalling and got the same thing. > Michael (responded) >I also had this problem momentarily. Try quitting MacPerl, throwing out >MacPerl's Preferences and then trying again. > > >Michael