note $code or die I have ActivePerl 629 - which I compiled, so PPM would be the one that comes with build 628. I'll try on some other machines and see what happens. But I was looking through the PPM.pm source and it implies that repositories can have "Summary" files. These summaries somehow aid the search routines. I am guessing that PPM::SOAPServer is a SOAP service that acts as the repository and searches the PPD files returning descriptions etc that match the search. But maybe I have the wrong end of the stick! <a href="mailto:$code_or_die@simonflack.com">Simon Flack</a> (<A HREF="/index.pl?node=%24code%20or%20die&lastnode_id=14444">$code or die</A>) <TT> $,=reverse'"ro_';s,$,\$,;s,$,lc ref sub{},e;$, =~y'_"' ';eval"die";print $_,lc substr$@,0,3; </TT> 113448 113499