Hi bruce,

>  i've tried a couple of the serial/deserializing mods from cpan. i've tried
>  to create the dbi mysql connection handle, and then serialize/deserialize
>  the handle, with the expectation that i could then use the result in the
>  same test app to perform the dbi functions... either it can't be done, or
>  i'm missing something. the results i'm getting back from the
>  serialize/deserialize functions is not the orginal dbi handle....

I'm sorry, but you can't serialize a database connection. Serializing 
essentially means you get a string _describing_ the object. You could 
even email me that string, and if it were a regular hash or some such, I 
could reconstruct it in a perl script. I'm sure you don't expect me to 
be able to get a valid database connection out of that though!

What you can do though, is change the way you call the other perl 
script. Since you're calling perl from within perl, it makes little 
sense to spawn a new perl interpreter.
You're better off using "require" or "do". That has the advantage that 
the "require"'d script has full access to your variables, and vice versa.
So instead of:

	system 'perl', 'aaa.pl', $dbh;

do

	do "aaa.pl";

HTH,

Rhesa
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