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Good suggestion, certainly a more sensible approach than system, but not really applicable for me. While I want this to be able to run under Win32, i do not want to lose ability to run it under Linux.
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Re^5: Parallel downloading under Win32?
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 29, 2009 at 13:10 UTC
    While I want this to be able to run under Win32, i do not want to lose ability to run it under Linux

    That might make it more messy. Assuming that the code that works on linux *doesn't* work on windows, you could resort to something like: 
    if($^O =~ /mswin32/i) {
  require Win32::Process;
  # do the task using Win32::Process
}
else {
  # do the task using whatever it is that works on linux
}

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    As an alternative, you may find that the code that works on linux also works on windows if run under Cygwin. Is using Cygwin an option ?

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      Cygwin is not an option, as the target audience is slightly techy, but not THAT techy. I was aware of the possibility of checking for OS already, but really didn't want to get into that mess. Luckily, someone else already did, as ikegami showed above. :)
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