in reply to Re: Perl IPC and Windows
in thread Perl IPC and Windows

Hello! Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, I've already tried most of those ideas. Here's what I've found:

IO::Socket::INET - The problem here is that blocking(0) doesn't work on sockets in Windows. I'm trying a work-around that was posted here.

Win32::MemMap - This module has apparently fallen off the face of the earth. I can only find documentation for it, not the actual code. I would LOVE to use this module, if it still exists.

Named Pipes - ..are blocking in windows. See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Reference/Products/ActivePerl/site/lib/Win32/Pipe.html under "limitations".

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Re: Re: Re: Perl IPC and Windows
by kabel (Chaplain) on Sep 21, 2002 at 19:44 UTC
    this steps were taken directly from the site i pointed you: 
    c:\> ppm
PPM interactive shell (...) - type 'help' for available commands.
PPM> set repository Jenda http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/perl
PPM> set save
PPM> search
    the installation works for me, except the module needs Win32::API to be installed.
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      Awsome. You rule! Thanks a ton. I got it (Win32::MemMap) by doing: 
      c:\> ppm
PPM interactive shell (...) - type 'help' for available commands.
PPM> set repository Jenda http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/perl
PPM> install Win32::MemMap
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