From my limited understanding of the ways of perl, I believe windows 95 is only of limited enlightenment in these ways. From what I can figure perl is only 90% compatible with windows 95. There is a utility floating about that can check on your system's level of compatibility. I found it in the Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days book. This book is very good and almost all of the programs work. It even includes a batch file that will turn your perl programs so that they can be launched from the command line without invoking perl with each execution.