Re: "Unsupported function alarm function" with Net::Telnet problem

According to perldoc perlport . . .

       alarm SECONDS
       alarm   Not implemented. (Win32)
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It means just what it says: Net::Telnet tried to use alarm() but it's not available. It's trying to set things up to timeout after a certain period of time so that it won't hang indefinately if there's no reply.

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Re: Re: "Unsupported function alarm function" with Net::Telnet problem by gothic_mallard (Pilgrim) on Nov 30, 2001 at 20:11 UTC
Thanks for the reply Why should it not be available? Is it part of the Net::Telnet module itself or something else that needs to be installed? If it isn't something that I can install, how can I solve this problem? Thanks again. J.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: "Unsupported function alarm function" with Net::Telnet problem by gothic_mallard (Pilgrim) on Nov 30, 2001 at 20:37 UTC
Okay... looks like I got it sorted. Seems that even the docs for the latest PPM release of this module say that this feature is broken. ( I think it may run on UNIX, but not under NT ) Got around it be reinstalling the older version that we were running previously - everything seems to be working fine now. Thanks again. J.	[reply]