Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.8882 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-2000. All rights reserved. C:\cpanrun-5.8\build\5-8-0\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.pl 1..3 ok 1 not ok 2 You should hear the output for this ... Can't call method "say" without a package or object reference at test.pl line 29. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\cpanrun-5.8\build\5-8-0\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0x274d' Stop.