With the following patch applied to the 7613 kit I obtained: [.lib]encode............ok All tests successful. u=25.75 s=0 cu=0 cs=0 files=245 tests=13237 (where my previously reported vmsish.t problem was due to a bad SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL - grin :-) This patch has some rather long lines. Specifically two long lines are removed and a short line and a long line are added. In the event that the mail systems through which this message has to pass decide to munch things I note the following attributes of the loose diff file: % perl -ne 'print "$. ",length,"\n"' enc.patch 1 52 2 53 3 48 4 22 5 72 6 11 7 56 8 139 9 157 10 44 11 164 12 33 13 8 14 28 and here it is: diff -ru perl.orig/configure.com perl/configure.com --- perl.orig/configure.com Wed Nov 8 06:28:25 2000 +++ perl/configure.com Wed Nov 8 14:29:18 2000 @@ -2367,8 +2367,8 @@ $ echo "SDBM_File if you have the GDBM library built on your machine." $ echo "" $ echo "Which modules do you want to build into perl?" -$! dflt = "Fcntl Errno File::Glob IO Opcode Byteloader Devel::Peek Devel::DProf Data::Dumper attrs re VMS::Stdio VMS::DCLsym B SDBM_File" -$ dflt = "re Fcntl Errno File::Glob IO Opcode Devel::Peek Devel::DProf Data::Dumper attrs VMS::Stdio VMS::DCLsym B SDBM_File Storable Thread Sys::Hostname" +$! we need to add Byteloader to this list: +$ dflt = "re Fcntl Encode Errno File::Glob IO Opcode Devel::Peek Devel::DProf Data::Dumper attrs VMS::Stdio VMS::DCLsym B SDBM_File Storable Thread Sys::Hostname" $ IF Using_Dec_C .OR. using_cxx $ THEN $ dflt = dflt + " POSIX" End of Patch. Please let me know if there was any trouble there. Thank you. Peter PrymmerThread Next