Thanks for your great advice, soonix. I'm now working on installing, understanding and exploiting Strawberry. Since I don't get around much anymore I thought I'd just install the .MSI version of 5.10 but the installer issued the message "Installer is no longer responding" for an hour, so I had to give up. (I'll report this to them as soon as I have time to figure out their complicated reporting procedures.) So far I'm getting the same results whether I issue programname.pl or c:\perl programname.pl. In either case $] is set to 5.22, the version I'm trying to avoid. Is there any way my program can sense that it is running Strawberry Perl rather than ActiveState Perl?

In reply to Re^4: New error message in ActivePerl 5.22 by dhannotte
in thread New error message in ActivePerl 5.22 by dhannotte

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