bcp_init crashes perl

a non-denominational season's greeting to everyone,

I've downloaded and installed sybperl and am experiencing a perl crash when running one of the sample programs.  The message I get is an OK dialogue with the following:

	"Perl.lexe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.  You will need to restart the 
	program. An error log is being created."

here's the program I run:

> use Sybase::BCP;
>
> $bcp = new Sybase::BCP 'developer1', 'xmas', 'udevgdr2';
> $bcp->config(INPUT => 'tst.bcp',
>     OUTPUT => 'wa.dbo.ec_tst',
>     SEPARATOR => '|'
>     );
> $bcp->run;

I've traced the problem inside of the ->run() and have found that it is bcp_init() that crashes perl.  I'm running on:

> Microsoft Windows 2000 - 5.00.2195 SP4
> ActiveState Perl v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
> $Id: Sybperl.pm,v 1.31 2001/08/09 00:02:06 mpeppler Exp $
> $Id: DBlib.pm.in,v 1.39 2002/01/11 23:50:29 mpeppler Exp $

with using Open Client 12.5, against:

> Adaptive Server Enterprise/11.9.2.6/1290/P/EBF 10491 ESD1/Sun_svr4/OS 5.5.1/FBO/Mon Jul 15 06:54:22 2002

what can I do to fix this?

1,000 thanks - erick


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