hi i am trying for 3 days to get GD.pm to work on sun4x solaris server. i have libgd-1.8.3 and GD-1.33 packages however i need to run licoln stiens patch ptach_gd.pl now command #perl patch_gd.pl in a libgd-1.8.3 dir resulsts in usage error on patch so i go into the patch_gd.pl file and remove the -v paramater on patch. now on running the program justs sits there - no error messages no nothing. doesn't even come back to the prompt. there is no -v option for patch command on sun. pl help this very frustrated soul !! rajib _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.