in reply to Trying to use old source code

> judging from my research it may be too old to just use

Which research? You are talking in riddles.

Perl development is very backwards compatible, though you might need to install missing modules.

require('r2inter.pl');
use webinter;

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are not on CPAN so I suppose you have even more old code to maintain.

Cheers Rolf
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