Trying to write clean scripts I make use of the -w switch and tried to use diagnostics. -w is okay, but using the diagnostics module without exception leads to a crash not event MacsBug is able to survive (rs give "MacsBug caused the exception"). (My system is a PM7500/100 with Mac OS 8.) Michael ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch