Bohan, Larry wrote: > while we're here, could one of y'all perhaps > elaborate on the choice of "-Dusedevel" ? > > Is it mostly to step past/skip warnings inre > "this is a dev kit, beware"? or ....? Yes it does that when we are in a dev release, but as Peter pointed out, we are technically in Release Candidate territory, so that is no longer valid. Under a more *nix-like environment, "Dusedevel" also sets some flags so that if you 'make install' it won't stomp all over your existing installation; it installs everything in version specific directories and does not update the main executable 'perl' to point at the new install. For VMS, however, this is a moot point ('mmk install' is not implemented like that), so it is not needed at all now. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747