Hi WC -Sx- Jones, Further to my last posting I found out the cause. Each time after changing the colour on the script, I must start a new terminal to run
$ perl colour.pl If on the same terminal "ON_YELLOW" and "UNDERLINE" will appear on following line. But I have no glue. B.R. Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>