Craig Berry writes:
At 09:53 AM 5/8/2001 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>The unix flavour uses Open3 which does not work on OpenVMS.

>Once upon a time Charles Lane suggested that open3() could be implemented on
>top of his piping code, but no one accepted the dare, so as far as I know it
>hasn't been done.

That's right, the dare's still open.  Last time I looked at it I got
bogged down in figuring out exactly what Perl wants (in the C code)
to implement open3.

It's likely to be only a small modifiction to the piping code to
support open3, rather than being implemented "on top of" the piping code.
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