Hi Liz, I've just installed Perl 5.8 :

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall

Binary build 806 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
+com
Built 00:45:44 Mar 31 2003


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Unfortunately, my main file doesn't work fine anymore : I get this Dr. Watson error :

Acces violation (0xc0000006) address : 0x026663ec1

I'd forgotten how concise these messages were. It also did this on another file and I realized it was due to Win32::GUI which I reinstalled - I also reinstalled Win32::OLE. I wanted to install the package called threads, but there is no such thing - I'm getting quite confused. Have you any idea where the problem might be ?

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