note Random_Walk <p>That did the trick. Some injudicious copying of perl addins from another machine had put the .dll but not the .pm into the CVS tree. The CVS code comes first in the path so the local .pm tried to load the wrong .dll out the CVS. This was obviously clear when I set the debug in a BEGIN block. Cleaned up the CVS tree and everything is now OK. </p> <p>Thanks a million,<br>R.</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-382261"> Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt! </div></div> 616552 616566