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I have been in contact with Ohio State University about the WEBPERL.EXE
component of their DECThreads web server.

Not only have files moved in the Perl directory tree, but the old version
of WEBPERL doesn't support the current CGI.pm (they overrode %ENV to get
the CGI environment variables into WEBPERL, and didn't support the "exists"
operation). There is a new version of the WEBPERL kit available at

http://www.er6.eng.ohio-state.edu/www/preview/webperl3.zip

which has been tested through Perl 5.8. The readme says it requires 5.8,
but in their correspondence with me they said it has been tested with
5.6.0, and I can vouch for 5.6.1.

What you need to do is to put the zip file in your WWW_ROOT and then expand
it and read aaareadme.webperl. Note that you now build webperl.exe using
WEBPERL_BLD2.COM. This command procedure will actually rummage around in
your PERL_ROOT and figure out where the files it needs are. It still asks
for confirmation, but unless you've been munging Perl you can probably take
the default. It also no longer requires perlshr.opt (which isn't in the kit
anymore, and only contained the line "perl_root:[000000]perlshr.exe/share"
anyway).

Tom Wyant

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