Norbert - Have you tried
perl -MStorable=retrieve -e "\$x = retrieve( './VeriPars.dat', 0 );" As I read the docs, setting the obscurely-documented flags argument to zero causes Storable not to attempt to make objects out of references. Whether this output is usable you will have to see for yourself. Another alternative to installing a REALLY OLD version of the DateTime-Locale distribution might be to install a code hook in @INC to provide dummy locale modules as needed. This is an advanced topic (read: you have to be REALLY desperate), but is documented (more or less) in perldoc -f require Tom Wyant (mailing address to the contrary notwithstanding).
