by the way, activestate has released a beta PDK 1.2 with a -gui option, and some other trinkets. - - - ActiveState is pleased to announce Perl Development Kit 1.2 Beta which can be downloaded from our web site: http://www.ActiveState.com/pdk/beta12.htm Before installing this beta software you should read the release notes which are also available on our web site: http://www.ActiveState.com/pdk/release12.htm