in reply to Tie::File is sucking the life out of me

"Doesn't work" is not very helpful. What was the error message? It could be a simple matter of permissions.

UPDATE:
Ahhh, good eye davido. Wish i had checked back before i hit 'submit' ... but, to answer your question ... different versions, perhaps? I was going to tell GaijinPunch to stick a

print $Tie::File::VERSION, "\n";
in the code and report what happens ...

jeffa

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