hi. i have an ftp program that will automatically upload and download from a site every hour. i have a win32::gui frontend for it so when it starts uploading or downloading the gui effectively freezes until its finished.

in the upload and download subroutine i tried putting in

if ($pid = fork) {
#upload and download
} else {
    print "error forking: $!\n";
}

[download]

but when i try to run it i get an error saying bizarre svtype 30.

so then i tried using threads but i'm told that this perl was built for use with ithreads. and i read perldoc Thread which says the same thing, so then how do i use ithreads?

i'm running activestate perl 5.6.1.631 and 5.6.1 compiled with the USE_MULTI, USE_ITHREADS and USE_IMP_SYS flags on windows 98se. it does the same thing on both builds.

thanx in advance

In reply to win32 forking and threads by Anonymous Monk

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