I appreciate your taking the time to hunt this down.
Particulary since it is a relatively stale post. Maybe
I should whine more often. (:
This does work as you suggested if I use:
use warnings; but it doesn't seem to help
if I use perl -w. I seem to recall reading
a post sometime back describing the differences between the
two, so I'll look for it again. Maybe I don't really need
to use "-w".