Look again at the top of the file. I just downloaded RedWolf MonkChatter and tried it. I got similar results and then noticed that '#!/usr/bin/perl' was the *second* line in the file. The first line was blank -- easy to miss.

Once I fixed that, the program ran.

HTH David

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