My last comment about this problem: I was not so stupid after all, it is the system() or Backquotes that cause Perl to crash my Win98SE (I was using backquotes to get a list of files). My script with backquotes worked once, then stopped working again. Upgrading to Perl 5.6.1 didn't improve things. WinME is fine, probably because it doesn't run real-mode DOS. So this has nothing to do with the web part of Microweb, it is the perl/Win98 part that seems to have failed.