> (I was also going to mention that with 4281 writing to dos disks seems
> to trash them, but reading from them is fine, however, maybe the new
> kernel will fix this! and any more thoughts on that simple perl script
> that gave the floating point exception?)

Recycling my old mail... 4339 solves the dos disk writing and a
reinstall of perl solved my floating point exception.

 Thank you everyone!

 Patrick