Greetings, The enclosed patch to perl@18639 has the Peek.t test running well on both OpenVMS 7.3-1 as well as not hurting it on SunOS 2.8 (aka Solaris 8). --- ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.t.orig Thu Jan 23 09:20:50 2003 +++ ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.t Thu Feb 20 08:00:30 2003 @@ -413,6 +413,7 @@ # # TAINTEDDIR is not set on: OS2, AMIGAOS, WIN32, MSDOS # environment variables may be invisibly case-forced, hence the (?i:PATH) +# C<scalar(@ARGV)> is turned into an IV on VMS hence the (?:IV) # do_test(21, $ENV{PATH}=@ARGV, # scalar(@ARGV) is a handy known tainted value @@ -431,10 +432,11 @@ TAINTEDDIR )? MG_LEN = -?\d+ MG_PTR = $ADDR (?:"(?i:PATH)"|=> HEf_SVKEY - SV = PV\\($ADDR\\) at $ADDR + SV = PV(?:IV)\\($ADDR\\) at $ADDR REFCNT = \d+ FLAGS = \\(TEMP,POK,pPOK\\) - PV = $ADDR "(?i:PATH)"\\\0 +(?: IV = 0 +)? PV = $ADDR "(?i:PATH)"\\\0 CUR = \d+ LEN = \d+) MAGIC = $ADDR End of Patch. Peter PrymmerThread Next