Hey folks,
	I think I finally resolved my issue with my "strange error" posts
from a few weeks ago. It has rotted my brains trying to breakdown the code
to it's simpliest form where the action still occurs. And I have
replicatable code now. I have CCed the author/copyrighter.

I need someone to confirm if it's a bug on different OS platforms and
versions of rsh. You might want to look at this when you have a few minutes
to spare.

The Error:
----------
Can't locate object method "new" via package "XML::SAX::PurePerl" (perhaps
you forgot to load "XML::SAX::PurePerl"?) at
/somepath/perl-5.6.1-unix/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/XML/SAX/ParserFactory.pm
line 37.

[but I have expat installed correctly]

Here are my specs:
------------------
SunOS host1 5.6 Generic_105181-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
rsh is from OS distribution and according to the man pages is (14 July
1994).
Perl 5.6.1 with XML::Simple1.08_01, XML-Parser-2.31, expat-1.95.4 and other
modules not related to this.

The code:
---------
# your perl here
use XML::Simple;

my $XML_FILE = "/u/njancesk/test.xml";
die "Can't read $XML_FILE\n" if !-r "$XML_FILE"; #check permissions

while ($n++ < 55 ){ ## error on 55 or greater when rsh
`IAmNotACommand`; # some command that doesn't exist (originally was a typo)
# yeah I know I should be checking $! and $? (the work around)
}

my $SHOW = XMLin("$XML_FILE", forcearray =>  1 );
__END__


$XML_FILE contains:
-------------------
<opt> 
  <AAAA date="8/12/2002" show="1" name="V3.1.5" /> 
  <BBBB date="8/12/2002" show="1" name="V3.1.5" /> 
  <CCCC date="8/12/2002" show="1" name="V3.1.9" /> 
</opt> 


Steps to replicate:
-------------------
1. run a command line rsh to the host you are on with the script path as the
command.
ie. /bin/rsh host1 /u/njancesk/pl.pl
2. see the error, if you didn't see the error try making the 55 in the while
loop a bigger number.


Strange thing is this ONLY happens when you run the script via an rsh
command line. if the number is less than 55 the error doesn't occur. if it's
run on the command line without rsh on the same host, no error occurs.

I don't know if it's a bug with the module, core perl, or rsh, but this is
by far the wackiest possible bug I have run into. I depleted 20 hours trying
to fix this error in my script, which I found a work around.

Thank you for your help and contributions!

Nikola Janceski

Thinking is easy, it's implementing ideas and putting thoughts to paper that
is difficult.
-- Nicky J. from da' Bronx


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