Yep,that's what I'm talking about. Your garbled output is a result of a difference between builds of Perl. I took advantage of something internal to Perl that differs from version to version. Success with this JAPH seems to be 5.8.0 specific. Them's the breaks! ;) But now having tested it on half a dozen 5.8.0 systems (of different architecture and OS), I think that the primary constraint is that it has to be run under 5.8.0. Thanks for checking in.