Shalom ( = 'hi' in hebrew),

My name is Eran Benjamin, I am a student in the technion university in Haifa, Israel.

I am trying to create a system which combine a pc and a speech recogntion device that is connected to the pc (based Win98 OS), the connection is done through the SerialPort (COM1 or COM2).

I have folowed the instruction of Bill Birthisel as presented at: http://members.aol.com/Bbirthisel/alpha.html thus I have download the Win32-SerialPort-0.19.tar.gz he present there.

THE PROBLEM is that when I try to run the tests given in the directory, The perl 'shouts' that it looks for a module:

Win32:API.

Bill refer to that in his README.txt but the link to the missing API file he gives, doesn't exist anymore.

QUESTIONS:

1. Do you have a better solution than the one Mr.Birthisel offers? If you do, please let me know.

If you don't:

2. Do the Win32 fit to deal with Windows98 OS?

3. Where can I find the missing API module?

The issue is urgent for me, please reply asap.

Thanks in advence,

Benjamin.

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