> a) Why can't I use -T on the shebang in MacPerl? (or, > if I can, what's my problem? Because of how MacPerl executes. It effectively calls "perl yourscript". If you do that in regular Unix perl, you will notice it will complain about the -T being too late, too. > b) Is there any system variable I can set after I > determine what OS I'm using? Not tainting. It must be done from the beginning. That's why you get the error, since it was not passed immediately when perl was invoked. There's no good way I can think of. -- Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network pudge@osdn.com http://osdn.com/ # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org