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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:27:58 +0100
From: Molnar Laszlo <molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>
To: Daniel Taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr>
Cc: Latex2html list <latex2html AT mcs DOT anl DOT gov>, DJGPP List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: perl54b.zip bugged
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On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 08:08:44PM +0200, Daniel Taupin wrote:
> molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu wrote:
> 
> > I just checked perl 5.004_02, and didn't find this "unable to load" string
> > in the distribution. What is this message EXACTLY?

[..]
 
> > According to the perl changelog, the latest memory related problem was
> > corrected in 5.004_02. What does go32-v2.exe say to you?
> 
> What I can say is that the "Out of memory!" message happens in the following perl command (which I do not understand at all:
> explanations welcome):

So the error message is "out of memory" and not "unable to load...". This
means you should provide more memory :-) But seriously, what does go32-v2.exe
write?

As I wrote before, the big(?) memory problem of perl5.004 is corrected in 
perl5.004_02, so I don't think _04 can help you. But I made a _04
executable for you, it's available from:

    http://cdata.tvnet.hu/~ml/perl/

> 
>  s/((\%|$comment_mark)\n|.)\n{2,}/$1\n\\par\n/og;

I think this regular expression tries to delete the comments. 

> > As you can see, the difference of behaviour in Win 3.11 and Win95 make me think the problem might be due to perl (unlikely
> > libgdbm.a).

I don't really understand why you mentioned libgdbm.a. Is it needed for
your script?

> That's why I would appreciate a vew version of perl, whose memory management would be safe...

See the url above. If it doesn't help, you could send me your script. 

Laszlo