in reply to Storable- long integer size

Suggestion: Run a script under OSX that retrieves the data structure and dumps it to a file using Data::Dumper. Copy that file to Windows and eval it back to a data structure and then use Storable to freeze it back to a binary file.

That will work around any incompatibilities and get you back to a working system that has all the benefits of Storable.

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