in reply to Re: Value packed as 'D', how to unpack not using 'D'?
in thread Value packed as 'D', how to unpack not using 'D'?

It's an inherited situation...
As I said, the Tgt box will not accept 'D' as a valid unpack format without a full re-compile of Perl, assuming the underlying system will accept it, as per the quoted perldoc
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