Re: Having trouble porting an application to MS-Windows

On 6/14/07, Chas Owens <chas.owens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.


In fact, the reference to alarm drops out of perlport in version 5.8.3
(released in 2004).

from Perl 5.8.3's Changes file
[ 21895]
alarm() is now implemented on Win32.
.

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