[MacPerl] MacPerl incompatibilities?

[agbaron@www.waldonet.net.mt (Dr Ann Galea Baron)]

Hi!

Please help. I have set up a suite of CGI applications entirely in MacPerl.
They are quite advanced and have taken up a great deal of my hours over the
past months. Development has been on a succession of Macs, depending on
what I had at the time: a PowerBook 165, an LC475 and a Power Macintosh
8100. The only problem I have had was when I switched to MacPerl 5.07 -- my
CGI's kept freezing but this disappeared when I switched back to MacPerl
4.18 with the Feb 95 CGI glue. Now the suite is working and I have got my
server delivered.

The specs are: PowerMacintosh 7250/120, System 7.5.3 (clean installation,
not update 2), Open Transport 1.1 and TCP/IP 1.1

Suddenly MacPerl is bombing. If I try to Open a script using the File>Open
menu command, MacPerl quits with a Type 1 error. The same happens if I drag
and drop CGI applications or droplets onto the MacPerl icon. The only way I
can edit the latter two types of file is by editing their text resources in
ResEdit. On the other hand, the programs work when I call them through
Navigator and WebSTAR.

This looks to me like a problem with the hardware/software on the server,
not a problem with MacPerl -- but I am writing to this group in the hope
that someone can help me shed some light on how to remedy the situation...
There must be a MacPerl programmer somewhere who has used the same Apple
Internet Server Solution as my own machine  :-)

Thanks for any help,

Gauden