#1 perldbadmin fails under ActiveState Perl 5.8.7

[Mike H]

I'm using ActiveState Perl 5.8.7 on a PC with Win XP
2002 SP1. I used to have perl 5.6 on my old win2000
PC and never had problems with perldbadmin. I have
not been able to get it to work under 5.8.7. I made one
change which helped slightly, which was turning off "use
strict" in orac_Base.pm (I don't recall the exact errors
there), which I know is not the best approach. Anyway,
the error I get now when trying to run the tool is just after
the splash logo is displayed -

C:\orac-1.2.0>perl orac_dba.pl
bad option "side": must be -after, -anchor, -before, -
expand, -fill, -in, -ipadx
, -ipady, -padx, -pady, or -side at
C:/Perl/site/lib/Tk/Widget.pm line 1144.
at orac_dba.pl line 321