I succeeded in an attempt to locate a module that would answer, some of a question I posted an hour ago (OK so I have the order of my actions slightly backward) I downloaded a module for Xbase. It comes with a standard Makefile.PL. How do I deal with such a thing on a Mac. On a Unix box it is trivial to simply run the Makefile.PL, run make, and run make install. If by some chance it would make my life easier, I do have MPW, but I use it so rarely and almost never for programming, that I think it unlikely to provide a good solution. The Xbase.pm has a lot of stuff that is intended to be split off into the documentation and the like. Josh Kuperman josh@racing.saratoga.ny.us http://www.racing.saratoga.ny.us/~josh ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch