There's a bug in the Socket.pm that's distributed with the 5.11r2 app. Line 298 of Socket.pm reads push @EXPORT qw( but should read push @EXPORT, qw( (What's that old ditty, for lack of a nail the battle was lost?) Socket.pm dies with a runaway string otherwise. The weirdness I still see in the two scripts that use Socket.pm, that successfully ran otherwise, is that the MacPerl window flew open and I saw the following printed in it: 0 0 5 2 0 4 6 1 0 300 The 300 appeared first. Do these mean anything to you, Matthias? This didn't happen in the scripts that don't network that successfully ran earlier this evening. -------- Paul J. Schinder NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 693 Greenbelt, MD 20770 schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov