From: Ed Peschko [mailto:Ed_Peschko@csgsystems.com] > *sigh*. Ok, your point is well taken, but sometimes I > *really* wish that there was something like a PERL_HEADER > variable in which you could put stuff like > this, and which would be included at the beginning of each > file. Yes, there would be a performance hit, and yes it > has the potential to make things non-portable, but its > really beginning to SUCK to have to add six+ lines at > the beginning of every file just to get functionality that is > so common but also site-specific. Stuff like: OK, try: Site.pm ------- use strict; use DBI; use FindBin; use lib $FindBin::Bin; use IO; use Data::Dumper; use Rebol; use lib "put site specific libraries here"; Put this in @INC (probably sitelib), then do perl -MSite or even put -MSite in the PERL5OPT variable... Paul.