Right then. I have the Printer module installed, and I am now trying to use it, with the following code: 
use Printer;
 my    $prn = new Printer('linux' => 'lp', 
                        'MSWin32' => 'LPT1' );
 my  %data = $prn->list_printers;
print $data{name};
print $data{port};

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The result of this is ARRAY(blah_address)ARRAY(blah_address2), which I know is a reference to an array. I try to get this data by adding 
my @list = \$data{name};
print @list;

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but this gives me SCALAR(blah_address3). Aaaargghh!!! What's going on? All I want is the data!

Also, how do I poll a network for available printers?

Any help would be much appreciated

Alex.

In reply to ok, still tryna print! by Anonymous Monk

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