> That, I assume was ActiveState perl. I'll try Cygwin and see how does it work. Yes, it was ActiveState. I found that the solution is to simply delete the PERL5LIB environment variable, which is perfectly safe to do if you have no need of Oracle's perl installation. ( I don't ) At least 10g has upgraded Perl from 5.6.0 to 5.6.1. Woo hoo! It's gone from obsolete to merely outdated. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------