|And when running my script I get "alarm function not found". This |function is a builtin function present in the Unix Perl but it |does not seem to exist in the PC Perl variant :( | |It there any work around ? Nope, not really. This topic is kicked around from time to time on the Win32-Users mailing list, but it's never been resolved satisfactorily. There's an archive of the list on the ActiveState website. DAvid