Also, I have no idea what "prototypes" mean with respect to Perl. If I'm using any, it is in complete ignorance of what they are or what they are called. My previous version of the module, before I changed the subroutine formatting and added the "list" routine, did not generate such an error. It actually ran. So, I'm considering reverting all the work I put into such a nice formatting as I have now, and going back to what I had before. Ugly that works is better than useless beauty--though it could be somewhat less ugly than before.