kpd01 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to develop a GUI application that will Telnet into a remote machine and gather information from it. The problem that I am having is that while it is gathering the information from the remote machine I seem to loose functionallity in the GUI window. I cannot even get the window to come back to the foreground if another window is placed over part of it. Is there a way that I could possibly spawn the telnet process and immediatally return control to the parent process while still being able to periodically checking the child process for it's status ? Or am I approching this problem totally wrong........ BTW...This is being done on a win2000 machine......

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Re: Using Net::Telnet and Win32::GUI
by hardburn (Abbot) on May 13, 2003 at 17:19 UTC

    You could fork off and have the child process do the telnetting. Then read the data back from the child through a pipe.

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      I was under the impression that the fork command was only applicable on UNIX type systems........Since I have only been using perl for about 6 months I may be wrong or maybe there is some other command that is similar in the windows environment.......any help is appreciated.........
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        If perl was compiled with iThreads (and most Win32 binary distributions are), then iThreads are used to emulate fork() on Win32.

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        I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
        -- Schemer

        Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated

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