On Wed, 9 May 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > doesn't this just make the adjustment at compile time? what i'm really > needing is something that will modify @INC for all time. can that be > done? perldoc -q INC ...bunch of stuff... How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime? Here are the suggested ways of modifying your include path: the PERLLIB environment variable the PERL5LIB environment variable the perl -Idir command line flag the use lib pragma, as in use lib "$ENV{HOME}/myown_perllib"; The latter is particularly useful because it knows about machine dependent architectures. The lib.pm pragmatic module was first included with the 5.002 release of Perl. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats -- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.