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Look in it and make sure c:\perl\bin\ is in it ? If it isn't go to my computer and environment and add it. HTH Ned Cunningham POS Systems Development Monro Muffler Brake 200 Holleder Parkway Rochester, NY 14615 (585) 647-6400 ext. 310 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -----Original Message----- From: Charlie davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: starting perl This is the code c:\> \perl\bin\perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\";" it is a one line code that is entered at the dos prompt and when I entered it all it dose is goes back to the dos prompt with nothing happening. I though that the the Hello World was going to popup on the screen. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>