Re: Perl ora_login to Oracle 9.2.0 from Solaris8 give error: OCIEnvInit

>    Following is the code line that fails:
> 
>            $lda = &ora_login($ORACLE_SID, $ORACLE_USER, $ORACLE_PASSWD) or
>          die $ora_errstr;
> 
>          Error String is: ERROR OCIEnvInit at InitSec.pl line 43.

That is not an error from Perl per se, but instead an error from
ora_login().  Therefore the perl-dist list is not quite the right 
place to ask about this.  I suggest some Perl database mailing lists.

> B. There are newer version of 5.005 such as 5.005_57, but how can I

You should not use 5.005_57 for production use since it's developer
only snapshot release, and it is actually closer to 5.6 than 5.005.
The 5.005_57 is not a maintenance release of 5.005.  You can see all this
by giving 'perlhist' to Google.

Regarding the question which Perl version is recommended, at the
moment the answer would probably be 5.6.1 (2001-Apr-08), in hopefully
near future probably 5.8.1.  The 5.005_03 was out in 1999-03-28,
hardly a recent release.

> determine if this is something that was fixed in one of the patches?
> I could not find a detailed list of fixes for each software release.

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