perrin is correct. But that hasn't stopped the use of (the emulated) fork in Win32 Perl (it is not specific to ActiveState releases) from making scripts behave strangely. In my experience, even trivial scripts that use fork don't behave properly.

I'd love to hear that Perl v5.8 has drastically improved this situation. But I won't believe reports from the porters as they had previously reported that it mostly worked. (:

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")