where are my errors?

Hi, all -- My partner and I have done something that gets rid of our error messages, and we're not quite sure what. The identical code base (I copied it over myself; I'm sure) worked "fine" on another supposedly-identical RH Linux machine. The basic stub for our code looks like $ENGINE_VER="dev" ; require "include/config.php" ; require "$ENGINE_PATH/file-to-include.php" ; where 'file-to-include' is whatever we really want (in this case it is 'survey'). If I put a simple typo like printt "oops" ; into the ENGINE_PATH copy I nonetheless do not get any error message. Now, if I put that into the stub even as the last line I *do* get an error message, so they are not *entirely* gone. If I do not require 'include/config.php' and instead manually define the ENGINE_PATH then I see the error no matter where it is placed. What kind of call would suppress error messages from a require()d file? I don't know his codebase, and he's never seen anything like this before, TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!