Hi,
I have the following perl script, which uses a basic fork command to launch parallel processes. For some reason the fork command seems to fail on WIN2000. Is the fork command even supported for Win2000/MS-DOS in perl. If it is please let me know whats wrong with my code. It works fine on UNIX.

eval 'exec ${PWPROD}/${ARCH}/perl/bin/perl -w -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
if 0;

use strict;

my $pid = fork;
if ($pid == 0) {
    # child
    print "in child process \n";
    exit 1;
} elsif ( $pid > 0 ) {
    # parent
    print "in parent \n";

} else {
    # fork error

    print "fork command failed with code $pid \n";
    exit 1;
}
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On UNIX I get the expected rsult as follows:

in parent
in child process
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On Win2000 I get the following error message:

fork command failed with code -1214
in child process
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