C:\perl -v This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:\>more test.pl #!perl use strict; my $var = 'Beard\n'; print $var; C:\>perl -d test.pl Unable to connect to remote host: 127.0.0.1:2000 Compilation failed in require. main::BEGIN() called at C:/Perl/lib/perl5db.pl line 0 eval {...} called at C:/Perl/lib/perl5db.pl line 0 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.