Paul Hoffman wrote: > I can't tell if this is a Perl 5.8 problem, a NetBSD 1.6 problem, or > a combination. > Information for p5-XML-Parser-2.30: > > Files: > /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-netbsd/XML/Parser.pm ^^^^^ I guess this is the problem: Using a binary package for perl 5.6.1 together with perl 5.8. ciao Klaus