I have found that leaving the ampersand off of a function call under v5.004 of perl on the SGIs still gives me problems. This has also appeared every now and then with my copy of MacPerl (from the CD). The routine names which seem to give me problems are ones which closely match normal Perl commands. Such as: openXXXX() closeXXXX() and the like. (On the SGIs we still also have to put the "use FileHandle" command because of how the SGIs work. But that's another story.) On non-Perl-like functions this doesn't seem to happen. My stuff's probably being weird again is all. But I thought I'd drop this in here. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch