I'm getting this problem too with This is perl, v5.10.1 built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread (with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2009, Larry Wall Binary build 1007 291969 provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com running on Windows 7, for url=http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-03-04 Strange bug as surprised this is the first comment on it for some years. Naively, one would assume that getprint is just a get and then a print in some sense but clearly not.