Thanks. Splain is great! Saves much manual searching of the perldiag docs (which on Win32 system with the standard more is less than useful).

Anyone have an existing perl script that improves on the standard Win32 more? <p.Shouldn't be hard to write in Perl to get something that goes backward as well as forwards and has a decent (or even primative!) search facility - but if anyone has one existing I'd be grateful.