Hello Phil, can you check what your Perl startup file contains?
I set Set PERL5LIB "Festplatte:Programme:MacPerl Ÿ:lib" Export PERL5LIB # The path to the MacPerl libraries there. When in MPW Shell check a successfull setting with echo {PERL5LIB} and whether this is really accessible with files "{PERL5LIB}" HTH, Axel.