The perl is running on the /server/ not the client. It cannot access your harddrive any more than the EQLive servers could.
On merging... There are a couple of ways to go about it.. and i'm not exactly sure which is the best. If we do a CVS push all of the latest changes will be removed by your diff. You're best bet I believe is to do a diff against the current code base, and we'll look at it and merge it in. CVS Is one way at the moment though, so having you make changes and then trying to diff them versus CVS would run into all of these problems again.
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