snippet Khen1950fx I was having a problem with CPAN's "long-list" of modules, so I've been using this as a replacement. It will search for and return the names of all authors, all distributions, and all modules on CPAN. <CODE> #!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->a; CPAN::Shell->d; CPAN::Shell->m; </CODE>