Well, all, I guess the core problem is that I cannot decypher it enough to support it, which I have been tasked with. By some miracle, the process has run for over a year w/o restarting, so there is magic within it, no doubt. But what is that story from the Jargon file, about Mel, a real programmer?

I see areas where things like Net::Telnet maybe employed versus opening raw sockets, where Tie::Hash would make life easier, even where removing seemingly obvious redundencies and lengthy if-elsif statements, would improve things. But, being so sensitive to day-to-day operatios, is there a delicate way to proceed?

Like I said, cperl-mode will help me with lining things up, and hopefully tcpdump will tell me what is passing between the various hosts. I would most definitely rewrite the thing, but w/o a model office to play in, what can I do other than tweek and test?

Remember I'm working IT for the auto industry, in a group of four which used to be twenty.

HTH
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idnopheq
Apply yourself to new problems without preparation, develop confidence in your ability to to meet situations as they arrise.

In reply to Re: Bite off a little at a time... by idnopheq
in thread Best way to fix a broken but functional program? by idnopheq

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