As an aside, for crashing perl on Win32, there's always this little bit of fun, too:

perl -te fork
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How do you figure? Do you mean to say it literally crashes perl? It runs fine for me:

C:\>cmd
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>perl -te fork

C:\>perl -te "fork; print qq[I am $$\n]"
I am 3388
I am -5532

C:\>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.3 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 8 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
...
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I am wondering whether this is a joke/pun that I am not getting. Just curious...

Update: The same code runs on my Win2K machine at home:

C:\>cmd
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
...
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