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I will try and do this today from home. had to dig to find a source tree for perl 5.004_5 will this do? On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Robb Kambic wrote: > Doug, > > perl installation needed. > > This is perl, version 5.004 > > Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall > > needs to be installed on lead1, current version 5.8.0 has a problem and I > need to have same version as motherlode for testing. > > Details: > > Some of the perl decoders have been acting strangly on lead1. ie Eating > up most of the CPU. After doing extensive checking, comparing motherlode > and lead1 code bases. Decoders run ok on motherlode. The version > of perl on lead1 5.8.0 has a problem with the select stmt. ie > > The four-argument form of select() did not preserve $! (errno) properly > when there were errors in the underlying call. This is now fixed. > version 5.8.1 > > This function is critical to the perl decoders. > > Thanks, > Robb... > > > =============================================================================== > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > =============================================================================== >