I'm running in to errors in my code that really shouldn't be errors in Perl for it. On my Linux box, croak works as it should. However in SCO OpenServer (Release 5), I get:

syntax error at /Response.pm line 99, near "croak "Can't chdir to $DataDIR: $!\n"" syntax error at /Response.pm line 189, near "croak "Can't open refdata.dat: $!\n"" syntax error at /Response.pm line 190, near "croak "Can't lock refdata.dat: $!"" syntax error at /Response.pm line 215, near "croak "Can't chdir back one directory!: $!\n""

Now the version on my box is 5.6.1 where the version on the SCO box is 5.004_04. Is there that much of a difference where in using croak with 5.004_04 will make a program puke? Where can I find the limitations of this version so I don't keep on correcting my code for the SCO box?

BMaximus

<font size=2">P.S. In case your wondering why I'm developing on a Linux box and moving it over to the SCO box. I hate the shell environment on the SCO box.

In reply to SCO OpenServer errors by BMaximus

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