In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2001-12-25 on C938451-A configured using `configure --with-gcc (2.95)' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: From what I understand perldb must process the command line arguments passed to the script being debugged in a shell-like manner. I found this not to be the case. I was trying to pass an argument with embedded white space by quoting ior escaping it. Nothing seems to work. If you try M-x perldb RET and supply "a b" as an argument, then the @ARGV contains two elements: "a and b" . -------------------------------------------------------------- Sincerely Yuri Shtil