I tried this special case, too, about 3 minutes ago. :-) Step for step as described by Rich. Again with Alpha 7.0 and MacPerl 5.2.0r4. Works fine. On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Vincent Nonnenmacher wrote: Rich Holmes had written: > >The script was *not* from a network transfer. I downloaded Alpha and > >MacPerl the other day; started both; opened a new document in Alpha; > >set Perl mode; typed 'print "Hello world\n";'; and did "Run the > >buffer" from the Camel menu. I get the aforementioned error. > > > got same error also. > the only workaround that I have found so far is to first save the script in > alpha and execute a save and run command wich run fine. > > Vincent Nonnenmacher ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch