note RhetTbull Hmm, not sure what the problem is. Here's what it does on my system. I've used this technique several times in the past with good success. <code> $ perl -v This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall Binary build 631 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com Built 17:16:22 Jan 2 2002 $ perl pmerr.pl Hello world This is my first error Goodbye world This is my second and final error I got the following errors: This is my first error This is my second and final error </code> 245900 245920