in reply to Multi- Processing / threading under Win32

For me,
Crashes using ActivePerl v5.6.1 build 633 on Win2k (single CPU)
Works   using ActivePerl v5.6.1 build 635 on WinXP (single CPU)
For fun,
Works   using ActivePerl v5.8.0 build 806 on WinXP (single CPU)