I use Perl on Win98 at home and I have absolutely no problems with it. As for using your code above, I have no idea what command "map" is supposed to be. It's not on my system and there's no point in trying to run the code as the backticks will capture no output.

As for your error message, there's not enough information to tell if it has anything to do with Perl. Can you run the 'map' command from the command line? If so, does it err out? Is there any chance that you have recently reinstalled Perl? ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 is a 600 series release and cannot be installed over a 500 series release. The 5xx release must be uninstalled prior to installing the 6xx.

Good luck.

Cheers,
Ovid

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