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[Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx]

disclaimer:  I don't use 9iAS.

Unless you have 9iAS scripts that depend on the Perl that installs with 
9iAS, it
is probably not too important.

I wouldn't delete it myself, but I probably would remove it from PATH.

Jared






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Hopefully this is a simple question (hah!):

I've installed Oracle 9.2.0.1 on my NT craptop. The default installation 
of Oracle uses Apache and version 50003 (something like that) of perl. 
I'd already  installed the latest ActiveState version of perl (5.8). 
Doing a perl -v points me to the earlier version in the Apache directory.

After I modified the path to look for perl in the C:\perl\bin directory 
first I did a perl -v and it's picking up the 5.8 version.
I'm simply wondering if I can just do away with the 5.0003 version of 
perl contained in the apache directory and put the contents of the 5.8 
version into that directory. (Of course I can back out the changes.)

Why am I doing (or more accurately asking about) this?

This is my sandbox/remote access computer and I'm trying to use this to 
start working with some of the examples and software used in Jared's 
book which seem to require a later version of perl than 5.0003 and I'm 
not exactly sure I really want both versions laying around. I'm planning 
on using this eventually on some test boxes on a real system rather than 
a craptop install of Oracle and I would rather have this "cleaned up" 
before I move on to them.

Before anyone asks, the test systems and eventually the production 
systems I'll be connecting to are a mix of Unix and (sob) NT systems.

I just figgered I'd try the more breakable and smaller systems first, 
that's why I'm doing this on NT.

I know it's easy enough to move the 5.0003 version to a backup directory 
and put the 5.8 version of perl in it's place, I was simply wondering if 
anyone else has tried it and found any gotchas, especially if I have to 
connect to systems with 5.0003 installed (or something lower than 5.8) 
and backward compatibility. I've tried looking in Google on websites and 
the newsfroups and what info I got there seems somewhat sparse.

I'll be happy to report back with my results once I finish my testing.

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