Similar to what Yaron suggested, what is the first line of your perl script? It should be #!/usr/bin/perl or something very much like it. It should point to where perl is installed on your system. Regards - Karl On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:03:09PM -0600, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > > > No, the program actually is a download from a site off slashdot. It is > the mudshell program, if you are familiar with that, and I have only > opened it up on the server. Thanks for trying though. > > This is a long shot, but have you edited them on Windows? This happened > > to us when my wife edited perl files on Windows, and a ^M got added to the > > end of #! /usr/bin/perl.