Please see my reply to tachyon for answers to some of your questions.

As a novice programmer, I don't understand fork emulation or, for that matter, much else about how Perl interacts with an operating system (such as MS-DOS). I was hoping to delay that part of my education, in the interests of getting some work done. (My Perl scripts "only" need to do what a simple DOS batch file could do--control which experiment runs next; and to do fancier "Perlish" things, like rewriting my code to change experiment timing conditions, and processing and integrating files, to get everything ready for statistical analysis.

Any insights would be appreciated.

In reply to Re: Re: Is (DOS-)Perl a Memory Hog? by Neuroactive
in thread Is (DOS-)Perl a Memory Hog? by Neuroactive

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