Beware

Those older releases versions of DBI are not up to date.

This means that they are not supported, have bugs and are missing features.

If that's fine , you might have a problem finding the previous versions of database drivers that work for that particular DBI. And they might have bugs and be unsupported...

If you really can't upgrade to 5.005 I wish you the best of luck with what seems like a difficult task.

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clscott