"Brett W. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Randy5235 wrote: > > > Pretty new to Perl still so forgive me a bit please. I have searched the web > > (google is my friend) and searched the groups and found multiple things > > concerning fork. here is the problem I can't find a page that has the basic > > syntax for using it. I am writing a small bbs system. I need to be able to > > do several things at the same time eg. check your password while everyone > > else is chatting. If I understand this correctly if I fork the process then > > it will run at the same time as the original process and everyone will be > > able to do their thing?? is this correct? Sorry for the newbie question. > > perldoc is also your friend. Perl comes with documentation for just about > everything. Try 'perldoc -f fork' to get the syntax for the funcation > call. > > -- Brett > http://www.chapelperilous.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > QUESTION AUTHORITY. > > (Sez who?) >
I had actually already tried that but there is much syntax help there really or example. Thank you though.Randy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
