I recently downloaded something (bluefish) from MacPorts which required Perl 5.8.8. This completely took over my @INC and now none of my Perl programs work. It turns out bluefish was not what I was looking for and Perl 5.8.8 is not needed at all. How can recover my @INC (which did not refer to /opt/local/etc)? Tom McDonough --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.