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Message: [QUOTE="Steve Grazzini, post: 4746570"] One of the authors said on p5p ([URL]http://xrl.us/2gb[/URL]) On some platforms when a script is called via PATH, instead of directly, $0 does not contain the full path to the script (I am assuming that caller would return the same value as $0 in such a case). This is why FindBin goes to a great extent to locate the real position of the script. But I'm not sure whether this is correct. It looks to me like the only time perl searches $PATH is when running under the -S switch, regardless of platform. And when perl finds the script in $PATH, it will always set $0 to an absolute path or a path relative to the current directory. Getting rid of the $PATH search would also fix the "KNOWN BUG" in FindBin's documentation. Do you know if either of these have been reported as bugs? I found this ticket (from 1999, marked "resolved") but couldn't find the explanation. [URL]http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=1845[/URL] [/QUOTE]