text_combined: steve hay rybvejulplanitcom nicholas clark wrote meanwhile attached patches resolve issue released versions perl 58x theyre context diffs unified diffs symmetric context hunks hand crafted patchlevelh hunk based previous iterations patches 2005 even fussiest vendor supplied patch program coped format regexp588patch applies 588 regexp587patch applies 587 586 585 regexp584patch applies 584 regexp583patch applies 583 582 581 regexp580patch applies 580 please could people test platform perl hand ive tried 588 585 581 appropriate patches win32 using vc6 case patch applied ok perl built without errors passed tests apologies took long get around ive busy battling ms truly hateful user account control system vista lately fri 08 aug 2008 125213 0000 security issues perl core