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I just installed the Stacker 3.0 upgrade (unfortunately).  I have been
using Stacker 2.0 for a long time, and it has never given any
problems.  However, now that I have installed Stacker 3.0, I cannot
run perl scripts any more.  (For those of you who don't know what Perl
is, it is a very powerful pattern scanning and general processing
language that you can get free from the net.  For those of you who do
know what it is, I am using the bcv14_perl4-019E.zip version.)

Whenever I run a perl script that manipulates files, it locks up the
machine with a variety of complaints: sometimes Illegal Instruction
trapped by QEMM, sometimes GP Fault trapped by QEMM, sometimes screen
goes blank and machine dies, sometimes Read error on C (the stacker
drive), etc.

This version of Perl is compiled with Borland's VROOM overlay manager,
so I thought there might be an expanded-memory problem of some kind;
but I get the same behavior whether I load the Stacker driver high or
low, and whether I put the Stacker cache in /EMS or not.

I also tried recompiling Perl from the sources using BC++ 3.1 instead
of 3.0, and got the same behavior.

Does anyone have any ideas for what might be wrong, and how I could
cure the problem?  Otherwise, I guess I'll have to restore from the
backup and go back to stacker 2.0, which was reliable.

Thanks for any help.