Thanks Jenda, your update describes it exactly...wish I could have said that first time ;-)

I should have said it was a dll in the oracle\bin directory...I guess to find the DLL before I do the "eval use DBD::Oracle" I would try and find a registry entry or environment var and then do a dir search like you say...

For now, I am letting the error popup and then I popup a description of it (I have a Tk GUI).

THANKS!