I need to make a timer. I need to create a loop that runs every 4 minutes. When the 4 minutes is up play a sound. Just a simple ding. I was wondering how this could be done in perl. Would this be better suited in Java? It will be run on a windows xp system. If this were linux/unix I can do this with a shell script. I however am just starting to dabble in perl. Thanks for the help.