Multiple perl version on the same server?

[Jeff Jun]

Is it somehow possible to run 5.8.0 and 5.8.4 on the same netware 6.5
server? I've got an application I've written and it absolutely does not
run with 5.8.4 (ucs issues I think), but is golden with 5.8.0. I need
to get my servers up to sp4 to fix some file system problems with
double-byte characters, but back-reving perl kills more than it fixes
when I tried that. Can you run the older perl in it's own memory space
for 1 specific script, or something like that? Any info is greatly
appreciated! Thanks!

Jeff

[KMurugan]

<< I've got an application I've written and it absolutely does not run
with 5.8.4 (ucs issues I think), but is golden with 5.8.0. >>

What is the issue? Can you provide the sample to simulate the issue
here. I will try to fix the issue in Perl 5.8.4.

Regards
K.Murugan

Post by Jeff Jun
Is it somehow possible to run 5.8.0 and 5.8.4 on the same netware 6.5
server? I've got an application I've written and it absolutely does not
run with 5.8.4 (ucs issues I think), but is golden with 5.8.0. I need
to get my servers up to sp4 to fix some file system problems with
double-byte characters, but back-reving perl kills more than it fixes
when I tried that. Can you run the older perl in it's own memory space
for 1 specific script, or something like that? Any info is greatly
appreciated! Thanks!
Jeff

[Jeff Jun]

It's an issue with UCS and textwindow that I posted about in the UCS
forum back in march. Guenter got this reply back from the developers at
that time:
"Thanks for your communication. This is the bug in new Perl-5.8.4 when
it handles TextWindow component. We will look into this as a high
priority bug. Thanks."

There's a note about it in scripting section of netware's support pack
4a readme:

"31.1.3 Universal Component System
* Accessing the TextWindow component from Perl and PHP is not fully
supported."

Unfortunately I've been using textwindow for some stuff I've been doing,
and have been remaining on sp2 for my servers until now. We've been
dealing with a Japanese character issue with the filesystem that could
only be fixed by using sp2 with an lconfig from a japanese netware
server. It looks like sp4 has fixed that particualr issue, so in order
to see english on the server console again instead of corrupted
japanese, we need to go to sp4.

And that's where I'm stumped. If the textwindow piece in perl 5.8.0 is
working, I wasn't sure if there was a way to use that alongside 5.8.4 on
the servers, or if there was a way to use the UCS pieces from 5.8.0 with
5.8.4, or what... Any insight into this would be greatly, greatly
appreciated...

Thanks!!

Jeff

Post by KMurugan
<< I've got an application I've written and it absolutely does not run
with 5.8.4 (ucs issues I think), but is golden with 5.8.0. >>
What is the issue? Can you provide the sample to simulate the issue
here. I will try to fix the issue in Perl 5.8.4.
Regards
K.Murugan

Post by Jeff Jun
Is it somehow possible to run 5.8.0 and 5.8.4 on the same netware 6.5
server? I've got an application I've written and it absolutely does
not run with 5.8.4 (ucs issues I think), but is golden with 5.8.0. I
need to get my servers up to sp4 to fix some file system problems with
double-byte characters, but back-reving perl kills more than it fixes
when I tried that. Can you run the older perl in it's own memory
space for 1 specific script, or something like that? Any info is
greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Jeff

[Jeff Jun]

Or I guess, since nothing is mentioned of it not working any longer in
nscript, would you happen to know an easy way to convert perl to vb? :)

jeff

Post by Jeff Jun
It's an issue with UCS and textwindow that I posted about in the UCS
forum back in march. Guenter got this reply back from the developers at
"Thanks for your communication. This is the bug in new Perl-5.8.4 when
it handles TextWindow component. We will look into this as a high
priority bug. Thanks."
There's a note about it in scripting section of netware's support pack
"31.1.3 Universal Component System
* Accessing the TextWindow component from Perl and PHP is not fully
supported."
Unfortunately I've been using textwindow for some stuff I've been doing,
and have been remaining on sp2 for my servers until now. We've been
dealing with a Japanese character issue with the filesystem that could
only be fixed by using sp2 with an lconfig from a japanese netware
server. It looks like sp4 has fixed that particualr issue, so in order
to see english on the server console again instead of corrupted
japanese, we need to go to sp4.
And that's where I'm stumped. If the textwindow piece in perl 5.8.0 is
working, I wasn't sure if there was a way to use that alongside 5.8.4 on
the servers, or if there was a way to use the UCS pieces from 5.8.0 with
5.8.4, or what... Any insight into this would be greatly, greatly
appreciated...
Thanks!!
Jeff

Post by KMurugan
<< I've got an application I've written and it absolutely does not run
with 5.8.4 (ucs issues I think), but is golden with 5.8.0. >>
What is the issue? Can you provide the sample to simulate the issue
here. I will try to fix the issue in Perl 5.8.4.
Regards
K.Murugan

Post by Jeff Jun
Is it somehow possible to run 5.8.0 and 5.8.4 on the same netware 6.5
server? I've got an application I've written and it absolutely does
not run with 5.8.4 (ucs issues I think), but is golden with 5.8.0. I
need to get my servers up to sp4 to fix some file system problems
with double-byte characters, but back-reving perl kills more than it
fixes when I tried that. Can you run the older perl in it's own
memory space for 1 specific script, or something like that? Any info
is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Jeff