Wow. Perl 4.035. That's old, real old. According to perlhist 4.035 was released 1992-Jun-23. The first version of Perl I can remember using was 4.036, but it wasn't until 1998 (with 5.004.04) that I started using Perl seriously (at least that's the earliest Perl file I can find).

You have my sympathies, having to deal with Perl 4.