> > I tried and it died.  perl5 would not compile on the MVII boxes.
> 
>  5:04 kurkku ~ %% perl
> print "works fine.\n";
> ^D
> works fine.
> 
> Did this on a 13MB MicroVAX II, and yes, that is perl5 which I
> compiled myself.

How?  My perl make was still making its makefiles 36 hours later!

What is different about your machine or my machine?  Something is
making mine slow as molasses in january.

KA630
SQ706A
13mb ram (forget the numbers right off)
4 x 1 gig scsi drives.
TKQ50
DEQNA

(not necessarily in that order, but, speaking of order, IFF one or
more of the boards was not set right, that could slow things down?)

What are the boards and board ordering in your machine?

Thanks

Bob