Yes, that's a old Perl version. I'd not recommend it.

I do, however, have 3 recommendations for you, 2 at-cost, 1 free but tough. The first is to try IndigoStar's Perl2EXE app, which makes a standalone executable for your Perl apps. Doesn't make them run faster, and it does cost money (it's shareware). The econd it Activestate's own PerlApp, which does much the same as Perl2EXE, and is part of the Perl Dev Kit, which Activestate sells.

Third, you can setup a share w/Perl on the internal network, wrap your scripts using perl2bat (which comes with the ActiveState distribution), and edit the resulting batch file to net use to the share where the Perl executable is, and run from there. It's a free solution, but insecure and taking some work ahead of time.

Hope all of this helps!

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.