The answer that I was looking for is the environment variable PERL5LIB Setting this is equivalent to the -I flag or the 'use lib' directive. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9