Well, the first thing I'd try (as part of my Brute Force & Ignorance™ testing style) is to see which of your scripts work on the office server without change. You may luck out and have no work to do or find that the work is trivial.

If that doesn't work and you think changing the scripts is too much work, you could try convincing the sysadmin who manages your office server to install Perl 5.8 (recommended course).

emc

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.

—Mary Shafer, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

In reply to Re: How to Run/Convert(?) Script Built on 5.8.4 to 5.004 by swampyankee
in thread How to Run/Convert(?) Script Built on 5.8.4 to 5.004 by neversaint

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