I looked over my settings again and realized, that I didn't set $ENV{HOME} correctly in the perl startup script for MPW; CPAN 1.47 now just works fine, on MPW Perl too. Great job! Thanks for help Michael - Michael Ziege Stauffacherstr. 54 8004 Zuerich Switzerland tel. +41 1 241 9164 (priv.) +41 1 253 6356 (biz.) e-mail. ziege@ito.umnw.ethz.ch ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch