Does Perl on Win32 have the fork() call yet? If so, is it reasonably
fast (as it is on Unix)? fork() is a nice, simple way to make a server
(for example).
I would guess if perl 5.005 is on Win32 it has threads, no? (not that
I'd really ever want to use threads in perl...)
Karl Runge
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, "Kevin D. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Jamie Blondin writes:
>
> > You do _NOT_ want to start learning Perl on Win32. No no no no bad.
>
> I'd tend to agree. I've used all of the Win32 Perl ports. I like the
> Cygwin port the best, but writing Perl on a Unix box is so much easier.
>
> > Which reminds me...anyone here have experience in talking to MS SQL Server
> > 6.5 from a Linux box with Perl? (Without having to install some kind of
> > extra server application on a Windows box to get it to work) I haven't been
> > able to figure it out yet...Thanks
>
> Use Perl's DBI module and you can use a wide variety of DB backends,
> including <cough, cough> MS ODBC.
>
> --kevin
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