Mmm... I suppose it really does depend on the environment in which you are working. Or... what Perl version do you have installed? I've never had to add the newline in Windows XP. In any case, there are times when the newline is required. I don't know the conditions under which it is necessary, but I bet that it's the correct answer to the original poster's question. BTW, here's the output I receive: 

[root] perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
.............
.............
[root]# uname -a
Linux [xxxx] 2.4.18-19.8.0 #1 Thu Dec 12 05:39:29 EST 2002 i686 i686 i
+386 GNU/Linux
[root]# perl -e "print crypt('password','A0')"
[root]# perl -le "print crypt('password','A0')"
A0qxUqZSv1XUU

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In reply to Re^3: perl-5.8.0 print statement by Coruscate
in thread perl-5.8.0 print statement by hhoffman

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