hi, > As I said -- and I just doublechecked with a microperl built > straight from a clean 5.8.8 tarball -- readdir works absolutely > flawless in microperl. I looked at the uconfig file and readdir is defined.Thanks for the help. But I am running microperl in an embedded platform.I built microperl using the buildroot. But when i invoke an application which uses perl,the application throws an error message. The error message is..... 'X' outside of string in unpack at lib/Image/Exiftool.pm line 2335,EXIFTOOL_FILE chunk 2 Is this error,bcos of the microperl missing some functionalities ???? Please tell me whether this error is due to microperl ...or the application???? Regards, Ram.Thread Previous