hi im planning on building a one-to-one chat application
it sounds very simple.but i have to cope with the
fact that im having perl 5.8.0 on windows and it seems
that fork() is not properly offering a context for
parallel programming,tough i would have expected it
to do so.
what can i use to be able to parallel program?
this question is related to the difficulty im finding
in the following:
when one of the ends is receiving something it must also
write but in a perl console one can do one of two things:
1)wait for user input and you are not able to print anything
2)print on the screen but do not take user input
the problem is i need both of these at the same time.
also i would like to not start building from scratch
a perl library for console
i find ncurses\curses to be a nice one but it seems ppm
does not find it through its packages
is POE an alternative to threads ? is it good enough?
does it have graphics functions to make a simple GUI?
all suggestions are welcomed

In reply to poe/win32/fork/threads chat-application by spx2

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