Hi, On Nov 22, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Jay Sullivan wrote: > maxima woes part II: > > Is the perl variable $root reserved for something special? Yep, looks like it gets swallowed by the "safe" environment in which Perl runs, http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.0/ext/Opcode/Safe.pm Odd. - Gerd.