Did something look, um, strange when you previewed this message? You should have used <code> tags to make that neater.

There is an excellent mailing list for perl and Sybase, you can find the details at Michael Peppler's most excellent page devoted to the topic (scroll down to "Sybperl mailing list). Ask your question there, you don't have to bother about HTML, plain ASCII is accepted! Seriously though, I do use Sybase & perl on Solaris, but I can't explain your error.

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