Oh, no,....it did work then, Honestly Abigail. Well the pinging of mass host names did work with this script. But what didn't work was when I tried to adapt it so that it gathers share and folders sizes simultaneously. But then I got help from BrowserUk and by using WSH and multithreading the problem was solved.

Sorry, I am a bit slow learner.

I have spoken to Damian Conway in person 2 weeks ago – during his Aikido presentation - and having explained my trials and tribulations with Multithreading (I can hear most of you would saying 'trial and tribulation in everything Blackadder :-D' he informed that him and Larry Wall are working on Perl version 6 which will address most of short falls of multithreading in Perl. I asked about the reentry into Win32::OLE hash when multithreading and he informed that this will also be addressed. That’s all the information I managed to get from Damian. ...Just thought I share this with you,…..BTW: Congratulation to Larry Wall for his daughters wedding and I wish him well and speedy recovery.

Blackadder

In reply to Re^2: Multi-threading ping of a list of hosts.....Again! by blackadder
in thread Multi-threading ping of a list of hosts.....Again! by blackadder

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