I tried to run the first script from Learning MacPerl which goes like this. I compiled the script under MacPerl 5.1or2. This has been drawan from"Learning Perl" by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen. When I run the script it shows nothing other than the "syntax" ok. Do I need to have a news version? #!/usr/bin/perl -w print "What is your name?"; $naem = <STDIN>; chomp ($naem); if ($name eq "Randal") { print "Hello,Randal! How good of you to be here!\n"; } else { print "Hello, $name!\n"; } Amit ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch