> > Robin Barker wrote: > [snip] > > + my $fh = FileHandle->new; > > + if ($fh->open(">$configpmtest")) { > > + $fh->print("1;\n"); > > I'm just a bit curious... is there any reason you're using FileHandle, > rather than IO::File ? It was in the piece of repeated code I copies and unrepeated. The rest of CPAN.pm use FileHandle rather than IO::* no doubt for histerical (and supposed backward compatibility) raisins. Robin -- Robin Barker | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CMSC, Building 10, | Phone: +44 (0) 20 8943 7090 National Physical Laboratory, | Fax: +44 (0) 20 8977 7091 Teddington, Middlesex, UK. TW11 OLW | WWW: http://www.npl.co.uk