Hi, > Installed build 523 from CD onto laptop whose hard drive crashed a while > ago. output of backticks goes to screen instead of into perl. I had trouble with this some time back and seem to remember that it was a bug in builds before 62x. The CHANGES.HTML file in the html dir lists a couple of changes referencing backticks. Cheerio Rodger _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users