On 2012-February-17, at 10:20 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> My version of perl is v5.6.1 built for msys. > Ca. 10 years+ old - could be the version I had in mind above. FYI, I just installed the latest msys (1.0.11) and the MSYS DTK 1.0, still contains perl 5.6.1. Time to try something different A