Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi does anyone know how to call the Winsock function WSAGetLastError() from a Perl script?

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Re: calling WSAGetLastError() from Perl (on Windows)
by talexb (Chancellor) on Dec 31, 2001 at 21:46 UTC
    What did the documentation say? What have you tried? What errors did you get?

    More effort, please.

    --t. alex

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(tye)Re: calling WSAGetLastError() from Perl (on Windows)
by tye (Sage) on Jan 01, 2002 at 00:24 UTC
Re: calling WSAGetLastError() from Perl (on Windows)
by dmmiller2k (Chaplain) on Dec 31, 2001 at 22:14 UTC

    (Hint: try poking around on ActiveState.com's site, if you haven't already installed ActivePerl--on the other hand, if you *are* using ActivePerl, you already have the full docs).

    "More effort, please."
    --talexb

    Yes, please. More information.

    dmm

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