I have a file that just contains subroutines that I want to use with several other programs. I've never done this before, and "require" looked a bit easier than "use", but I could be convinced otherwise. I called it mysubs.pl and ended the file with '1'. But every time I make an edit to the main program, it tells me "can't find mysubs.pl" until I save the edited main. I assume this has something to do with my edited file being in a temp directory or something. What do I do to eliminate this problem? And how do I put my file into @INC, which is where it seems to need to be? J. -->John Springer <http://www.scruznet.com/~springer> Still the Penultimate Mac bigot.