Re: Having trouble porting an application to MS-Windows

From: chas.owens@xxxxxxxxx (Chas Owens)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:58:05 -0400

On 6/14/07, Bob McConnell <rvm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In "perlport - Writing portable Perl" in the Alphabetic list of Perl
Functions:

alarm SECONDS
alarm
Not implemented. (Win32)

I couldn't find anything in the ActiveState release notes that
contradicted that.

snip

> the latest version of ActiveState Perl on Windows XP works.

snip

Are you using the latest version of ActiveState Perl? I installed the
latest version this morning to test the code I sent and when I run

perldoc -T perlport | find /i alarm

I get not output. The first three functions listed are -X, atan2, and binmode.
.

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