diff --git a/utils/solvers/perl/GMSH_CLIENT.pm b/utils/solvers/perl/GMSH_CLIENT.pm
index c90041bab9e04814c03b6a45eaa70c3d20cb32f6..fb97bc27f7c3eff6c4662b4d1dd2302454befa0c 100755
--- a/utils/solvers/perl/GMSH_CLIENT.pm
+++ b/utils/solvers/perl/GMSH_CLIENT.pm
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ $INFO         = 10;
 $WARNING      = 11;
 $ERROR        = 12;
 $PROGRESS     = 13;
-$VIEW         = 20; # deprecated: use MERGE_FILE instead
 $MERGE_FILE   = 20;
 $PARSE_STRING = 21;
 $OPTION       = 100;
diff --git a/utils/solvers/perl/solver.opt b/utils/solvers/perl/solver.opt
index b9df3181e62c87fe443d34c98e04929c98687ef7..3a65859164e18173a2510236ee96ff242ddcedb9 100755
--- a/utils/solvers/perl/solver.opt
+++ b/utils/solvers/perl/solver.opt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Solver.Name1 = "My Perl solver";
 Solver.Help1 = "A simple perl example of the client/server
 solver implementation in Gmsh...";
 Solver.Executable1 = "./solver.pl";
+Solver.InputName1 = "dummy";
 Solver.SocketCommand1 = "-socket %s";
 Solver.NameCommand1 = "%s";
 Solver.OptionCommand1 = "-options";
diff --git a/utils/solvers/python/Gmsh.py b/utils/solvers/python/Gmsh.py
index 1306c570e286c427257c40836309f29797b17f9f..399df98cfe7140ce974ac5facee57101295b796d 100644
--- a/utils/solvers/python/Gmsh.py
+++ b/utils/solvers/python/Gmsh.py
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ INFO         = 10
 WARNING      = 11
 ERROR        = 12
 PROGRESS     = 13
-VIEW         = 20 # deprecated: use MERGE_FILE instead
 MERGE_FILE   = 20
 PARSE_STRING = 21
 OPTION       = 100
diff --git a/utils/solvers/python/postcsv.opt b/utils/solvers/python/postcsv.opt
index e2c89709ff29952972595135c945b94bfddee212..4413d652849066efabe809ed4f3881a0fbd054db 100644
--- a/utils/solvers/python/postcsv.opt
+++ b/utils/solvers/python/postcsv.opt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ indexed, comma-separated-value results into Gmsh.
 Carl Osterwisch <osterwischc@asme.org>
 January 2005";
 Solver.Executable1 = "./postcsv.py";
+Solver.InputName1 = "dummy";
 Solver.Extension1 = ".csv";
 Solver.MeshName1 = "";
 Solver.MeshCommand1 = "--mesh=%s";