Liz: I've built and installed Perl 5.8.4RC1 and I'm now trying to make the basics work before I look at the memory issue stated in my original post.
An error message of: "thread failed to start: Can't upgrade that kind of scalar" is introduced now when the program attempts to access a filehandle that is stored in a shared array. Research on this message reveals that it is likely related to a compile error rather than at the user code level. Since the code worked with 5.8.0 I'm assuming this to be true. I was hopeful that you or someone in your leading edge circle would be familiar with this message since it is development code and if so, what the remedy would be. As always, Thank you for your time. Steve
