From: jlauret@?.chem.sunysb.edu
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:34 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: May be usefull to all : perl problem under 7.2



	OK. This is not a request for help but I thought that by posting
this, I may help someone who had the unfortunate idea of upgrading to
OpenVMS7.2 and struggling with tones of problems as I am :


	A (most probably) change in the CRTL will make the CGI.pm on line
2735. The line in question is a -w test on a directory, the directory received
is \tmp . The syntax \tmp  not only will not work but also will cause a sure
crash in all perl modules and related. For CGI.pm, the solution is to
change (around line 95) . 

	VMS=>'\\'
 to
	VMS=>'/'

	Thanks to Dan Sugalski for quickly pointing to this patch,

	For this report, I used perl 5.004_04 precedingly compiled on
OpenVMS62 ... 


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