Got it! I had been moving things all over the place tyring to get it to work. It was the way I had setup the block. Thanks for your clearer explanation of the until construct.

anylou... this works.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict ;
use diagnostics;
use LWP::Simple ;

print "This will get the time from an NIST clock 5 times
and then ask you if you want to continue.  Use 'y'
to continue and any other key to stop:\n\n" ;

my $answer ;
my $quit = 0 ;

until ($quit) {
     getprint "http://132.163.4.101:13" ;
     getprint "http://132.163.4.101:13" ;
     getprint "http://132.163.4.101:13" ;
     getprint "http://132.163.4.101:13" ;
     getprint "http://132.163.4.101:13" ;
     print "\n\nDo you  want to continue?  " ;
          
     $answer = <STDIN> ;
     chomp $answer ;
     
     if ($answer eq 'y') {     
     print "OK\n" ;
          } else { 
          $quit = 1 ;
          }
}

print "Good-bye!\n\n" ;
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