oraperl problem with &ora_do(..)

The following oraperl script goes off into never-never land while executing the &ora_do statement and has to be killed. However, THE TABLE IS CREATED BY THIS STATEMENT! Have any of you oraperl hackers seen this problem or know what to do about it? I am working on a Sun 10 under SunOS with patch 3 of oraperl and perl 4.0 patchlevel 35.

#!/usr/local/bin/oraperl

$|=1;
$lda=&ora_login("","","");
print "creating.";
print &ora_do($lda,"create table junk (test varchar2(20))"); print "\n";

Thanks,

Jeff

Jeff.Stander_at_ml.csiro.au        _--_|\        Database Analyst
CSIRO Division Of Fisheries    /      \       Pelagic Fisheries Resources
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