>D:\perl\5.00503\lib/MSWin32-x86 >I am on MS Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 5), with the MS Visual C++ 4.2 >compiler. >I think that the forward slash in the path makes the compiler not find >headers properly. That would be strange. As far as I have by hearsay been led to believe it, the kernel doesn't care whether you use a slash or a backslash. --tom