On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Tom Marsh wrote: > no, no problem at all, its just that as far as I could work out the > install was downloading all third party software itself, even perl, > so I thought this meant something more serious Well, we treat lex as a build tool similar to a C compiler and we don't particularly care what version it is. Perl is needed at runtime and we need to make sure we have a particular version. -- Tim Jenness JAC software http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj