note IlyaM Exactly. This is why for all Perl scripts I'm going to distrubute on other systems I use [ExtUtils::MakeMaker] which does such patching automatically. It is very simple: <code> < Makefile.PL file > use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; WriteMakefile(NAME => 'Hello', VERSION => '1.00', EXE_FILES => ['hello']); < MANIFEST file > Makefile.PL hello < hello file > #!perl use strict; use warnings; print "Hello, world!\n"; </code> Once finished you can type <code>perl Makefile.PL; make dist</code> and get tarball ready to install with <code>tar zxvf Hello-1.00.tar.gz; cd Hello-1.00; perl Makefile.PL; make; make install</code> Update: Replaced 'script.pl' with 'hello' in 'MANIFEST'. -- Ilya Martynov, <a href="mailto:ilya@iponweb.net">ilya@iponweb.net</a> CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support UK managed @ offshore prices - <a href="http://www.iponweb.net">http://www.iponweb.net</a> Personal website - <a href="http://martynov.org/">http://martynov.org</a> 222457 222474