I wrote: !I have a workaround already (not yet a fix). Ask MMK to !build the target explicitly: Oops. OK apparently not building the x2p target(s) is intentional for DEBUG builds: around line 97 in [.vms]descrip_mms.template we find: 97 .ifdef __DEBUG__ 98 NOX2P = 1 99 .endif and indeed I have no find2perl or a2p built. This was likely due to difficulties with a2p.exe (that is my guess anyway) since as I showed sed.com seems OK under dbgperl.exe. Peter Prymmer