Thanks, Peter and Craig, for the helpful suggestions. In fact, I had the logicals defined *two* times (v5.6.1 systemwide, v5.8.0 in the process), and I only had the perl command defined as a process grobal symbol (must have been some other machine where I put it in the DCL tables - sorry).
But: after realcleaning & rebuilding, deinstalling PERLSHR and deassigning all logicals and symbols, Perl 5.8.0 still gives me 7 failed tests, with an ACCVIO on at least the first two. The debug session of t/run/switches up to the failure is in the attached file. Any ideas? cu, Martin -- OpenVMS: | Martin Vorlaender VMS & WNT programmer When you KNOW | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] where you want | http://www.pdv-systeme.de/users/martinv/ to go today. | home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
perl_test.txt.zip
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