From:                   "Michael Alaly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have spent the day looking for a version of threads::shared that
> will work with the latest version of activestate perl. My usual ppm
> install for threads::shared showed no available ppd file and when I
> tried to install with CPAN the module there wants 5.8 perl
> (activestate is currently 5.6.1). I downloaded the source and found
> that it requires at least 5.7.3.
> 
> Any suggestions? Might there be an older version of threads::shared
> out there somewhere that I would be able to use or am I out of luck?
> Ithreads work just fine .. however no shared data structures makes
> them of very little use to me.

What stops you from using any of the usual IPC tools? 
You can use pipes, sockets, shared memory, semaphores, anything ...

It's a little more work, but most of the stuff should work for you 
just perfect.

Jenda
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