Hi,

First of all, please excuse me for not answering the question.
My comment is about the use of the word "PERL". The language is called "Perl" with a capital P, the interpreter is called "perl". The only PERL in allcaps is Acme::Inline::PERL, which should not be taken serious :)

From Acme::Inline::PERL's documentation:

PERL is a programming language for writing CGI applications.

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Unfortunately there is no documentation for PERL (believe me I've looked everywhere). Therefore, the best thing to do is to go straight to comp.lang.perl.misc and ask your questions there.

Many people make the mistake of calling Perl or perl PERL. Sure, some books have PERL in the title, but that doesn't make it right.

Good luck with solving your session-problems!

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$
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