thanks, as a first test that worked. It then complained that lack of MSVCR80.dll; so put one in it path and now it complains in this way.
Runtime Error!
Program C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
R6034
An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorreclty. Please contact the applications support team for more information.
I have spent about 20 minutes googling that error without umderstand much of what I find.
angel