Works for me...

# uname -a
SunOS cosmora02d 5.9 Generic_112233-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
# perl -v 

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for sun4-solaris
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall

Binary build 805 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 12:45:24 Feb 17 2003


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