You have a crippled installation. Get the admins to reinstall Perl, and now leave it intact. Disk space is cheap nowadays. It may be the same version as they used before, for all I care.

Or, you can install another version of Perl at another location. Using the shebang line in your script you can use that for your script, and leave the old installation as it is: an almost useless pile of junk.

p.s. Hmm... people are suggesting that your "Business Server" is using Windows. I didn't know Activestate even had a version of perl5.004... Anyway, shebang lines likely won't work on Windows. Hmm... In that case, associate a different file extension, like ".pl2", with your new installation of perl, and use that extension for your scripts.

p.p.s. See how useless perl5.004 has become: "The DBI no longer supports Perl <= 5.004"

In reply to Re: Re: Re: How-to install POSIX.pm by bart
in thread How-to install POSIX.pm by LeeC79

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